I've read the books, watched original TV series (polish) and played all games.
I think that it will be hard to understand the timeline of this NF show for someone who never touched the subject.
I see what they did there - they cut the timeline in pieces and tried to show things in retrospections, then at some point let the watcher to put things together and find out what really happened - for someone like me who knows the whole story throughout, it is fun to watch and guess what story/adventure is shown at the moment, but I cannot imagine how this looks to someone who doesn't know it. I guess it must be scattered as hell.