Hog-riding nun battles evil AI

I’m still not completely sure what to make of “Mrs. Davis” — other than it’s entertaining, with an offbeat, oft-absurdist sense of humor and a storyline (and cast) which doesn’t take anything too seriously.

It’s billed as a drama, but I would quibble with that designation (OK, maybe … but just barely).

The eight-episode Peacock series from Tara Hernandez (“The Big Bang Theory”) and Damon Lindelof (“Lost,” “Watchmen”) is certainly relevant — positing a present-day world in which a nun, Simone (Betty Gilpin), is tasked with destroying an AI being alternately referred to as “The Algorithm,” “IT,” “HER” and, yes, “Mrs. Davis” that’s controlling the world’s population.

The plotline is all over the place but there are twists and turns around every bend and you’d be well-advised to just go along for the enjoyable ride.

The series opens in Paris in 1307 with that ever-elusive search for the Holy Grail (“the most overrated MacGuffin ever,” a character wryly observes later) before fast-forwarding to the present (“Across the sea, present-day. Not Paris, obviously,” onscreen text tells us).

Before too long we meet Simone, who, along with her fellow nuns, jars strawberry preserves at Our Lady of the Immaculate Valley, their convent outside of Reno, Nevada — oh, and she moonlights as a motorcycle-riding prankster who confides in the mysterious Jay (Andy McQueen) about some strange force.

There follows several Keystone Kops-type chases with the familiar wink-wink chase-scene tropes (i.e. everything getting in the way) as we meet the rest of the cast (including Margo Martindale and Jake McDorman) and try to suss out just what-the-heck is going on here — including that gang of Germans with Nazi pasts who are intent on trying to force Simone to lead them to the Holy Grail. Or something.

Eventually, we learn that Simone’s real name is Lizzy, and that her father (David Arquette) was a magician at a Reno casino in 2001, helped by his nightly audience plant (Lizzy); her mother, Celeste (Elizabeth Marvel), was part of the act and much smarter than her manipulative husband.

Back in the present, Simone get reacquainted with her childhood friend and ex-boyfriend Wiley (McDorman), who’s leading The Resistance, a group of like-minded people (including the requisite shirtless, rugged Aussie dude) who are battling “The Algorithm”/”IT”/”HER”/”Mrs. Davis.”

I would recommend not putting too much thought into the labyrinthian (at least to me) plotline but to sit back and enjoy the performances from a solid cast led by Gilpin (“Glow”), who can fire off a snarky response or one-liner with the best of them and seems to be having the time of her life.

I really like the show’s sense of fun and its cartoonish violence — a mixture of “Monty Python’s The Life of Brian” and “The Boys,” complete with lots of blood, many severed limbs, decapitations and squishy sound effects.

This is one bike-riding nun who doesn’t mess around.

“Mrs. Davis” premieres April 20 on Peacock.