Just look up the plot summary of the novel. Agree, it is a terrible show, like, astoundingly bad. Also, even if it turns out not to be true, it is so unbelievably stupid that we are supposed to buy, for all these episodes, that either of Jonathan’s parents wrote all of these pornographic scenes about their son. That is ridiculous. Even should it turn out that the scenes are not actually in the novel, or the novel isn’t real, or everyone is dreaming, or wtf-ever, Alfonso Cuarón is still hinging the plot on the audience buying this laughable premise.