I think I watched the first episode of that somewhere, but I don’t remember anything about it.

I don’t blame you for quitting that steaming pile. There are several Stephenson novels I’ve started but not finished, including Cryptonomicon. It wasn’t bad as such, but just not engaging. I gave it to a friend and he ate it up like Christmas dinner and asked for more. He and then both rage-read Fall together, hoping it would eventually have a point. It didn’t.