Marvel’s best TV shows are confusing as all get-out.“WandaVision”with its incongruous sitcom stylings,“Loki’s”timeline disruptions — and now“Moon Knight,”whose first episode (dropping on Disney+ on Wednesday, March 30) is just plain, proudly bonkers.

And rather brilliant at it.

Rest assured that well before the fourth weekly chapter, which was the last of the limited series’ six that Marvel provided for review, the show makes some sense — until it doesn’t again. In the meantime, “Moon Knight” is all about reveling in controlled chaos, as well as superb acting, satisfying action, meticulous production design and measured strains of comedy and horror.

One of the stranger comic book characters, Moon Knight is kind of a negative-image Batman, an off-white caped and masked entity in what looks like a reinforced mummy suit. Unlike the Dark Knight, he has some metaphysical powers. But the crescents adorning his chest plate double as batarangs.

Instead of Bruce Wayne, Moon Knight has multiple alter egos, not to mention an Egyptian god, Khonshu, who controls them all as avatars. Oscar Isaac does an outstanding job of shifting between MK’s two human personalities: wimpy English hieroglyphics reader Steven Grant and Marc Spector, a shady soldier of fortune from the U.S. Even if Steven’s music-hall British accent grates on your ears, you’ll have to admit that Isaac performs some of the finest lightning-fast personality splits ever recorded.

Additionally, Isaac movingly nails Steven’s terror and poignancy. He can’t account for hours, sometimes days, of his existence, and abruptly wakes up in ridiculous predicaments he knows nothing about. As Marc, who’s more aware of his Moon Knight situation, Isaac locates the Khonshu-enslaved sadness under any adventurous bravado.

Both personae are great at romantic back-and-forth with Layla, an Egyptian archaeologist played by May Calamawy (“Ramy”). She still has feelings for her ex Marc but digs Steven, too, once she discovers him. As they wind through pyramids and burial chambers, fighting off jackal demons or a private lance cavalry, Layla proves almost as formidable a fighter as the white-cowled weirdo.

Moon Knight and Khonshu’s main antagonist is Arthur Harrow, who leads a cult devoted to rival Egyptian deity Ammit. He’s played in gravelly, faux-rational whispers by Ethan Hawke. It’s a chilling portrayal, and extra interesting as another of Hawke’s unsettled religious minds, like the faith-shaken minister from“First Reformed”and fanatic abolitionist John Brown of Showtime’s“The Good Lord Bird”miniseries.

Khonshu, by the way, manifests as a tattered humanoid with a hovering, beaked skull. He’s voiced by the great F. Murray Abraham like the most self-deluded doofus in the Ancient Egyptian pantheon. It’s intimidating and hilarious.

“Umbrella Academy’s” Jeremy Slater was the head writer tasked with making sense of this nonsense. Egyptian filmmaker Mohamed Diab directed the pilot and three other episodes; the indie sci-fi team of Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead (“The Endless,” “Synchronic”) directed the other two.

Though the show was primarily shot in Hungary, Diab undoubtedly had much to do with its convincing re-creations of contemporary Cairo and the stunning classical interiors where much of the Indiana Jones-style adventure unfolds. Anyone who’s seen Diab’s masterful, motorized political thriller “Clash” won’t be surprised that episode one’s Alpine pursuit of a cupcake delivery van is a masterpiece of car-chase absurdity.

Just as refreshing, there’s nothing (through chapter four) that connects “Moon Knight” with anything else in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. While the overriding story is one of the joys of executive producer Kevin Feige’s unprecedented movie/TV achievement, this series demonstrates how invigorating a stand-alone Marvel show can be.

It’ll be fun to see how these characters are integrated into the MCU later, but for now nothing’s better than letting “Moon Knight” be its own lunatic thing.

N“Moon Knight”:Limited series. Starring Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy. Directed by Mohamed Diab and Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead. (TV-14. Six hour-long episodes.) Premieres on Disney+ Wednesday, March 30. Subsequent episodes released Wednesdays through May 4.