Lifetime's 'Petals on the Wind': Is it as bananas as the book?

A brief, uber-dramatic recap of Flowers in the Attic? Check. A shot of Heather Graham in a gorgeous ball gown, torching her ancestral home with an ornate candelabra? Brother-boning, ballet, and literal petals on literal wind?

petals-on-the-wind-rose-mciver-wyatt-nash- After the wildly-successful movie adaptation "Flowers in the Attic," Lifetime is checking back in with the complicated family dynamics of the Dollangangers for the sequel "Petals on the Wind." Airing Monday

V.C. Andrews' Petals on the Wind is in a class of its own, one where movie adaptations dare not go — a world in which it's perfectly fine and great for a 40-something widower to fall in love with a gorgeous, 15-year-old shut-in who's just been raped

A brief, uber-dramatic recap of Flowers in the Attic? Check. A shot of Heather Graham in a gorgeous ball gown, torching her ancestral home with an ornate candelabra? Brother-boning, ballet, and literal petals on literal wind?

DON'T MISS THE PREMIERE OF "PETALS ON THE WIND" THIS MONDAY MEMORIAL DAY AT 9PM ON LIFETIME.