I don’t yet know if Legion is a good show or not.

But it’s a show with a beautiful, surreal, unified aesthetic and that goes a long way in itself. It’s far more cinematic than most movies — just beautifully photographed, with every shot containing something that makes you laugh, or that you rewind to catch some other detail or just to marvel at the audacity and that the audacity works.

If anyone claims (wrongly) that TV shows cannot be art, have them watch this. What’s brilliant about it too is that if you turn the sound off, it’s still a beautiful sight.

It’s all just so gorgeous and so effortless-looking. At the same time, though, it feels like a high-wire act in gusting winds. You just marvel that it can sustain such an airy freedom with so many possibilities to plunge into the abyss.

It is lovely in the best of ways and if you think you know what you’re getting when you watch it, you’re wrong.

Whoever the folks are who did the set design, location scouting, principal photography, costuming and makeup on this show should get all the awards.