I have a feeling that if you want to fully understand what's going on in this show you have to play the game and read the books ! As for me i did neither of them i felt confused and what makes things even more confusing is the timelines !! Why the hell do you jump from timeline to another randomly and not giving us at least just a hint that we moved from this year to that year !! From the first episode they just do that as if you knew that before watching the show ! It took me to watch 3 episodes and finally i started to realize that there are 3 timelines and i began to figure things out !! The build up of the story is just not right and confusing with a lot of informations in every episode which cause you to forget what happened and every time you need to do a recap of the episode before moving to the next one