The Roast of King Midas is a live-televised retirement roast for Silas Vane, the “world’s most loved billionaire,” that curdles into a public reckoning. What starts as softball jokes from comedians and allies turns brutal as each roaster exposes a piece of Silas’s empire—fraud, cover-ups, and human costs he buried behind NDAs and philanthropy. As the crowd’s WORTH IT METER plummets with every truth, the chat and arena shift from cheering to complicity. The final blow is an 11-second unredacted tape that plays to silence while the audience reacts with revulsion, his daughter walks out, and the meter dies. Left alone under a spotlight that feels like an oven, Silas is metaphorically reduced to a “pot roast” — seared by fame, slow-cooked by scrutiny, and falling apart with no one left to consume him — as the broadcast cuts and his myth is archived forever.
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00:15The Roast of King Midas
00:18A 10-episode limited series
00:21Episode 1
00:23The Golden Ticket
00:25The world first hears about it
00:28In a TikTok
00:32SilasVane68
00:32Is weeping
00:34As he hand-feeds a three-legged dog
00:382.1 billion views
00:41Stitch it with clips of him
00:44Airlifting babies from floods
00:47Funding cancer wings
00:49Punching out a guy
00:51Who cut in line at Starbucks
00:54Caption
00:55They don't make him like this anymore
00:58Cut to Vane Tower
01:0088th floor
01:02The windows are too clean
01:04The air smells like money
01:07And ozone
01:08Silas sits at a table
01:12Made from a single slab
01:14Of meteorite
01:15His board is arranged around him
01:19Like nervous apostles
01:21Gentlemen
01:23Silas says
01:24I'm retiring
01:25His CFO
01:27Marion
01:28Actually chokes on her water
01:31Sir
01:32The stock
01:34Will be fine
01:36Silas says
01:37He slides a tablet
01:40Across the meteorite
01:42On it
01:43The Roast of King Midas
01:45Live from Dolby Theater
01:47100 million viewers
01:50No topics off-limits
01:52The head of PR goes pale
01:55Sir
01:57Westlake
01:58Azure
02:00The Lotus disclosures
02:02The
02:04Silas holds up a manila folder
02:07Tab reads Westlake
02:10He opens it
02:12Empty
02:13See
02:15He says
02:16Nothing to hide
02:18So let's make it a party
02:21Let them eat me
02:23That night
02:25The news breaks
02:26The Chiron
02:28Is religious
02:29He really is that good
02:31Final frame
02:33Silas alone
02:35Practicing a smile
02:37In the elevator mirror
02:39For one frame
02:41His mouth stays still
02:43While his eyes check the stock ticker
02:46Reflected in the glass
02:48Episode 2
02:50The Guest List
02:51Backstage at the Dolby
02:54Is a panic attack
02:56With catering
02:57Trevor Cain
02:59Late night host
03:01Turned Roast MC
03:02Is mainlining Tums
03:05He said
03:06No boundaries
03:07My boundaries
03:09Have boundaries
03:11I brought my lawyer
03:13My priest
03:14And a guy
03:15Who can legally declare me dead
03:18Liam Ford
03:20Rival CEO
03:22Adjusts a cufflink
03:24That costs more than a house
03:26Silas is so rich
03:28When he throws shade
03:30It triggers a solar eclipse
03:33Alina Cruz
03:35Arrives in a dress
03:37That's basically
03:39A cease and desist
03:40I dated him
03:42Six months
03:43The NDA
03:45Was six years
03:46The therapy
03:48Is generational
03:49APA runs in
03:52We have three additions
03:54No names
03:56They were added
03:58By the charity donor tier
04:00Silas watches all of this
04:03From a monitor
04:04In his dressing room
04:05He's miked
04:07He hears everything
04:09He smiles
04:11On the wall
04:13A new screen is mounted
04:15Worth it meter
04:17It's at 100
04:19No one knows
04:21Who installed it
04:23Producer
04:24Focus group thing
04:26Ignore it
04:28Trevor
04:29I have a very bad feeling
04:31About this
04:32Episode 3
04:33First blood
04:35Danny Cole
04:36The Dolby
04:38Is a packed cathedral
04:39The chant
04:41Is mighty US
04:42Midas
04:44It sounds
04:46Like a heartbeat
04:47Danny Cole
04:48Explodes onto stage
04:50He's been doing this
04:52Since comedy clubs
04:54Had ashtrays
04:55Silas Vane
04:57The only man
04:59Who gets a standing ovation
05:02For blinking
05:02Mainly
05:04Because he owns the islets
05:06The crowd is his
05:09Silas is so charitable
05:11He donated his ego
05:14To science
05:16Science wrote back
05:17Returned to sender
05:19We don't have the infrastructure
05:23Silas doesn't pay taxes
05:25Taxes pay him
05:27A convenience fee
05:28For existing
05:30Danny stalks the stage
05:32Grin goes surgical
05:35But seriously
05:37Westlake
05:38The crowd
05:40Ooh
05:41They think it's a callback
05:43A bit
05:45Silas leans into his mic
05:48The smile doesn't reach his eyes
05:51Cost of doing business
05:54Baby
05:54The dial appears for the first time
05:5750 feet tall
06:00Above stage
06:0187
06:02Chat
06:04Elmau King
06:05He said it
06:06I would die for this man
06:08In the booth
06:10Producer
06:11Too high
06:12We need him to sweat
06:14Send Marion
06:16Episode 4
06:18The CFO
06:19Marion Wells
06:21Marion Wells
06:23Doesn't do heels anymore
06:25She comes out in sneakers
06:27And a blazer she's had since the IPO
06:31She used to approve
06:34Silas' jet fuel
06:35Now she's here to light it
06:39Silas is so good at business
06:41He once sold a company to himself
06:46Suited for fraud
06:47And presided as the judge
06:50He fined himself one dollar
06:53And wrote it off
06:54He calls me his work wife
06:57Funny
06:59Because I keep a filing cabinet
07:01Of his real wives
07:03It's labeled settlements
07:05She drops a folder
07:08On the podium
07:09It's thin
07:11Westlake settled
07:13Want to see a magic trick
07:15Watch 400 wrongful death
07:19Claims disappear
07:20She opens it
07:22The pages
07:24Are all black bars
07:26Redacted
07:28Redacted
07:29Redacted
07:31Dial 72
07:33Silas Marion
07:35You always were dramatic
07:38That's why I kept you
07:41And why your 401k is so sad
07:45Half the crowd roars
07:47The other half
07:49Looks at their programs
07:51Like they missed a page
07:53Chat
07:54Wait
07:55Is this real not it's
07:57A bit best roast ever
07:59Episode 5
08:01The ghost
08:02Tom Jr
08:03Trevor next up
08:06Silas' college roommate
08:08Tom
08:09The music cue dies
08:11A wheelchair motor whines
08:14Tom Jr
08:16Rolls out
08:1740 years old
08:18He has his father's jaw
08:21And his father's dead eyes
08:23My dad said you
08:26Were the funniest guy
08:27At Harvard
08:28Mostly
08:30Because everyone else
08:32At your parties
08:33Was unconscious
08:34Roofies were called
08:37Networking back then
08:38Right
08:39The Dolby goes quiet
08:41Not respectful quiet
08:44Animal quiet
08:46You told the cop's dad's ski accident
08:50Was his fault
08:51Fun fact
08:53He's from Miami
08:54The only snow
08:57Was on your table
08:58You got the Rhodes Scholarship
09:01Dad got a chair
09:03And a check
09:04He still cashes the check
09:07He can't cash the scholarship
09:09Dial 59
09:12Red
09:13First booze of the night
09:16Silas
09:17Tom always loved Prattful
09:20Let's give him a hand
09:22Nobody moves
09:25Backstage
09:26Trevor grabs the producer
09:28We're losing them
09:30Producer watching the dial
09:33No
09:34We're just getting started
09:37Episode 6
09:39The actress Alina Cruz
09:41Alina comes out
09:44Looking like a weapon
09:45The dress is red
09:47The tears are real
09:50The check probably cleared anyway
09:53Silas dates
09:55Like he does mergers
09:57Hostile takeover
09:59Strip the assets
10:01Then a press release
10:03About synergy
10:04He told me
10:06I was the one
10:07I found the spreadsheet
10:10I was the one
10:11Q3
10:13Q4 was a blonde
10:15She breaks
10:17It's beautiful
10:19It's award season
10:21He promised me a part
10:23In his life
10:24I didn't know
10:26I was reading
10:27For defendant number 3
10:30She sobs
10:31Then it's fast
10:33Her left eye winks
10:35Silas from his table
10:38The smallest nod
10:40Dial 61
10:42Chat
10:44She's acting
10:45She's not
10:45Silas owns
10:47Her
10:47I don't care
10:49I'd still
10:49Trevor backstage
10:51Was that scripted?
10:54Producer
10:55All of it is
10:57Except the parts
10:59That'll kill us
11:00Episode 7
11:02The Kid
11:03Jaden
11:04Trevor
11:05We like to end
11:06The first half
11:07With hope
11:07From Make-A-Wish
11:09It's Jaden
11:11Jaden is 12
11:13He drags
11:15A folding chair
11:16To center stage
11:17The chair
11:19Is empty
11:19He taps
11:21The mic
11:22It feedbacks
11:23The whole room
11:25Flinches
11:26Mr.
11:28Vain
11:29They said
11:30You make wishes
11:31Come true
11:32So I wished
11:34My mom was here
11:35She lived
11:37In Azure Heights
11:38You called it
11:39Luxury
11:40Affordable housing
11:42Beat
11:43The only thing
11:45Affordable
11:46Was the funeral
11:47We used a coupon
11:49He sits
11:51In the empty chair
11:52He doesn't perform
11:54He doesn't cry
11:56He just exists
11:58For 22 seconds
12:00The Dolby
12:02Has never been that quiet
12:04You can hear the ice
12:06In the VIP bar
12:08Dial 44
12:10Blood red
12:12Seula stands
12:14You know what
12:16You're right
12:17Kids got a point
12:20So here's a point
12:22Ten billion dollars
12:24To housing
12:26If we get the meter
12:27Back to 50
12:28Dial 51
12:30The arena detonates
12:33Donate
12:34Donate
12:36Donate
12:37Donate
12:39Chat
12:39He's still a king
12:41Take my rent money
12:42Daddy
12:43I feel bad
12:44But also
12:45Jaden hasn't moved
12:48Episode 8
12:50The Archivist
12:52The Tape
12:52Lights die
12:54The air changes
12:56A woman walks out
12:58No introduction
13:00No last name
13:02Just the archivist
13:05Zylus
13:07You're so innovative
13:08You disrupted consequences
13:11You're the only man
13:13Who can get a standing ovation
13:15And a subpoena
13:17Before the same commercial break
13:20She holds up a USB
13:23It's scratched
13:25One video
13:28Unredacted
13:28You wanted
13:30No limits
13:31Be careful
13:32What you wish for
13:34Jaden
13:34She plugs it in
13:36The screen
13:38Goes black
13:39Then room tone
13:41A hum
13:42It could be an AC
13:44It could be something else
13:47You don't see what's on the tape
13:49You see what it does
13:52Ro C
13:53A man in an
13:55I love Silas shirt
13:57Claps a hand
13:58Over his mouth
13:59He tries to stand
14:01He doesn't make it
14:03To the aisle
14:04He vomits
14:06On the stairs
14:07No one laughs
14:09Booth
14:10Camera 2
14:11Operator Mike
14:1228
14:13Rips his headset off
14:16He looks at the director
14:18Shakes his head
14:20I'm out
14:22He walks
14:23He walks
14:24The feed cuts to static
14:26VIP
14:27Box Emma
14:2916
14:30Silas' daughter
14:32She isn't watching the screen
14:35She's watching her father
14:37Watch the dial
14:3939
14:4031
14:4124
14:43She stands
14:44Her security moves
14:46She holds up one hand
14:49No
14:50She walks out alone
14:52The door closes
14:54It's the loudest sound all night
14:57The tape ends
15:0011 seconds
15:01Silas
15:03Still at the podium
15:05So
15:07Who's next
15:08Dial
15:10Blank
15:11Episode 9
15:12The System
15:14Roaster number 7
15:16The same woman
15:18Walks back out
15:19She doesn't look at Silas
15:22She looks at the 73 million people
15:25Watching
15:26You know what's funny
15:28About billionaires
15:29You think the roast
15:32Is about them
15:33It's not
15:34It's about the kitchen
15:37Who paid for the knives
15:40Who's still hungry
15:41You wanted a roast
15:43Silas
15:44But you've been the roast
15:46For 40 years
15:48We just turned the heat down
15:50And waited
15:52She points at the crowd
15:54Look at them
15:56They're not laughing with you
15:58They're laughing
16:00So they don't have to hear themselves
16:02The dial stutters back to life
16:06It doesn't have numbers
16:08It says, well done
16:10Episode 10
16:12Pot roast
16:14The Dolby
16:15Is a tomb
16:16With a spotlight
16:17Silas
16:19Is still standing
16:20His tux
16:22Is ruined
16:23Sweat
16:24Cuts through his makeup
16:25Under the lights
16:28He doesn't look golden
16:29He looks spoiled
16:31Like something left
16:34In too long
16:35Roaster number seven
16:37Offstage
16:38Her voice calm
16:40Like a cooking show
16:41You know what a pot roast is
16:44You take something expensive
16:47Everyone wants it
16:50First you sear it
16:52High heat
16:53So the crowd cheers
16:56Looks good
16:58Smells good
16:59Then you put it in a pot
17:02Lit on
17:04Low heat
17:05Hours
17:07You don't touch it
17:09You don't have to
17:11The heat does the work
17:13And when it's done
17:15It falls apart
17:17Not from the knife
17:19From the weight
17:21Of itself
17:22From the hours
17:24Beat
17:25Dinner's ready
17:27Silas doesn't move
17:29The spotlight
17:31Is an oven
17:32Somewhere in row F
17:35A woman whispers
17:36He smells like pennies
17:39The dial flickers
17:41Well done
17:43Silas
17:44Barely a whisper
17:45But the mic catches it
17:48Was it worth it?
17:50No one answers
17:52Cut to black
17:54Chiron
17:55The roast of King Midas
17:58Chiron archived
18:00Epilogue
18:02Leftovers
18:03Six months later
18:05Headline
18:07Vain foundation dissolved
18:09Assets seized
18:11Board disbanded
18:14Photo
18:15Empty Dolby stage
18:17One folding chair
18:19Center
18:19Spotlight still on
18:22On the seat
18:24Someone scrawled in Sharpie
18:26Nobody ate
18:27Two years later
18:30Caption under a different photo
18:32Free clinic
18:34South LA
18:35Volunteer intake
18:38A name tag
18:40Slightly blurred
18:41Emma
18:42Hospice aid
18:44Last line of the article
18:46Miss
18:47Emma Vain
18:49Now 18
18:50Decline to comment
18:52Staff say
18:54She works night shifts
18:55And doesn't talk about her father
19:02코co
19:03White
19:03You
19:03Girls
19:04You
19:04You
19:05You
19:07You
19:09You
19:15I'll see you next time.
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