Petals On The Wind—the sexy, sexy, wind
Here’s what’s up in the world of television for Monday, May 26. All times are Eastern.
TOP PICK
Petals In The Wind (Lifetime, 9 p.m.): Happy Memorial Day! Are you hanging out with your family, planning on grilling some hot dogs or burgers, and looking for some good old-fashioned wholesome entertainment to accompany your flag-waving and veteran-appreciating? Well, Lifetime has something very special for you: The sequel to its upsettingly awful Flowers In The Attic, itself based on V.C. Andrews brilliant and ridiculous novel of the same name. With Petals In The Wind, we return to the incestuous family of sexy siblings, 10 years later—when they’re forced to confront their awkward feelings for each other and the Secrets Of Their Pasts Or Something. Genevieve Valentine watched it so you don’t have to—though you probably will anyway, who are you kidding?
ALSO NOTED
MasterChef (Fox, 8 p.m.): Season five of this show about cooking that isn’t Top Chef or MasterChef Junior starts tonight. We don’t know why they even have the adult one anymore because we were very, very fond of MasterChef Junior.
The World Wars (History Channel, 9 p.m.): And over on the Channel of History, 20th century history gets a “big, dumb” action-movie treatment, in a miniseries that depicts European politics of the whole century. But mostly Hitler. Because, Hitler! Alasdair Wilkins wasn’t too impressed. With either the series or Hitler. But it will be on tonight, and we are also noting it.
The Boondocks (Adult Swim, 10:30 p.m.): And topically, following Kim Kardashian’s wedding to Kanye West, Granddad takes the opportunity tonight to date a Kardashian. Eric Thurm is a little concerned, but on the other hand, if there’s a wedding, maybe there will be cake?
REGULAR COVERAGE
24: Live Another Day (Fox, 9 p.m.)
Louie (FX, 10 p.m.)
ELSEWHERE IN TV CLUB
And yes, as we mentioned earlier, it is Memorial Day. So there’s not too much new stuff on the site, besides the two TV Reviews above. But as Mad Men said goodbye to us last night, we decided to cope with an inventory about 17 supercomputers from the ’60s—from television, short stories, and alarmist cinema. It’s a super cool list, made more so by how hilariously competent we all thought computers would be about 50 years ago. Also, we promise we did not make any weird references to Halt And Catch Fire, unlike those weird AMC promos that mash up Mad Men with their new drama.
TV CLUB CLASSIC
Justice League Unlimited (noon): We recently obtained a free copy of a Justice League Unlimited comic book, from the exciting world that is Free Comic Book Day In America And Stuff. It is a very silly but very cute story. Oliver Sava has been very patiently tolerating our foray into the wide world of comic books, and he probably tolerates yours, too.