I finished the Netflix series and listened to a podcast about the first book. But I haven’t read it myself. The general take I got from it was anti authoritarian. Written from the perspective of someone whose sense of freedom is only their inner most thoughts amongst a greater more powerful force that can watch you all the time and explores how you survive in that. Basically layers of that nested within itself. That’s the situation for individual characters in history, that’s the situation for humanity and that’s the kind of the situation for the author the Netflix series is based on. Caveats for Hollywood etc and again I haven’t read the book.