Tales From A Parallel Universe: I Worship His Shadow

A surfeit of tangentially related characters and skipped-over expository elements make I WORSHIP HIS SHADOW nearly impossible to synopsize. The first in a four-part German-Canadian series titled "Lexx," but rennamed "Tales from a Parallel Universe" for US airings on the Movie Channel, this is watchable only as a memory test for viewers intent on untangling the twisted plot lines.

In the future, a fascist-like religion dominates a cluster of 20,000 planets, all of whom are forced to worship His Shadow (Walter Borden). A prophecy from the Shadow's predecessors (who are still alive in the form of disembodied brains) foretells his defeat by one of the Brunnen-G, a r...