When life hands you lemons | The Fall of the House of Usher 

I used to work in marketing and I have to say the accuracy is a big part of why I love this series. Roderick's monologue here was like listening to one of my marketing professors.

this is sick and makes the world go f*ck up

im in sales and i concur

I wish you all a path out of the capitalist hellscape -- a path that somehow still lets you get by OK.

Agreed and pretty genius but simple as well

I have to say I’m very sad that we as a society haven’t managed to work this into our collective vernacular yet.

Can confirm is now a lemon 🍋

This entire show is effing lemon

I honestly am not saying this to promote myself, but I uploaded a story a while back called Fuck Oranges and for whatever reason this scene blends so well with it.

How?

Bruce Greenwood is killing it. The younger DA also has beautiful speech when he visits him in his younger days that just floored me

Totally agree. I loathe the Streep school of histrionics! Cheers from Melbourne 😁

Actin is not only this :)

Good lord. Calm down.

You might like The Sunset Limited

Exactly!

I think I had the same expression on my face after watching this scene the first time.

*Lemon on Top

Only and brilliant yet psychopathic callus and completely non empathic opportunist could possibly conceive of such rationale in their twisted psyche. Dupin's horror at this realization while hilarious is completely justified .😂

You act as if those people dont exist daily. Thats how marketing and running countries work@@Christrulesall2

Cave Johnson would throw a temper tantrum at life over the lemons. Roderick usher would build a Lem-pire and buy Cave Johnson's whole company.

This was one of the reasons I found this scene so terrifying. Reality is the stuff of nightmares.

They did the exact same with diamonds.

The truth is that the farmer (Percy Schmeiser) was actually straight up stealing the seeds though. Monsanto kept telling him to stop and he kept it up. They didn't just arbitrarily sue him. This is a story that gets more and more distorted over time.

​@alecjones4676 No, he said it isn't his responsibility to control what seeds landed in his field and that it's his right to re-seed what has grown on his land.

@@kaingates Right but the point is that he didn't spend millions in R&D to develop those seeds, Monsanto did. They also explained the situation to him, gave him every chance to stop, yet he knowingly continued to plant and sell those crops. I'm not saying he's a bad guy, I'm just saying that Monsanto isn't either.

This is not a metaphor, this is literally capitalism today. It's not a metaphor. It is how it's done

Not a metaphor, but the recipe

That’s capitalism for ya

It’s the lesson of every “luxury” commodity on earth

It's obvious and yet still smacks you in the face when it's delivered with such straight forwardness, no hesitation, and cold.

He is, hands down, the most exciting horror filmmaker currently working!

Midway through the series I thought, for Flanagan, this is second only to Hill House (love all the shows). Not comparing, just ranking in my opinion. By the end, The Fall of The House of Usher became one of my favourite shows. What a god damn series.

@@Mr_Mace I liked, good series, but it has some letdowns right in the middle. Starts really good, but from episode 3 until 7, the writting was a little down, and then the ending was MARVELOUS. To me, midnight mass is still he's most legendary work.

@@AlehGea yep, midnight mass for me too. I've rewatched it so many times and I get something new from it on every rewatch...and I still cry at Erin and Riley's monologues.

He is great

@@ogdenjThe real life scenario involves Monsanto patenting soy beans that were genetically engineered to be resistant to RoundUp weed killer. The seeds got mixed with natural ones, and farmers unknowingly planted the patented seeds. Monsanto then sued everyone for patent infringement.

"Winning doesn't mean anything unless someone else loses."

Monsanto has destroyed a lot of cotton farmers from the demon seed!!! Thank you Mitt Romney!!

@@ogdenj Was just about to say that.

​@@xeoh85Better to check the seeds you are using then. The wrong conclusion idiots draw from this fiasco is that somehow patenting seeds is wrong. No, the actual lesson is farming is done by uneducated rubes who don't understand technology, and need serious incentive structure if we have to sustain. We can no longer indulge in ivory towers in AC, leaving most important jobs to local joe's just because it requires getting your hands dirty

Companies have done everything he says.

@@samuelopoku4868Right? Part of that was literally describing the ‘precious stone’ industry

He was able to so effortlessly give that "monologue" because over the years, he has mastered the art of exploitation, underhanded business tactics, and monopoly. It just shows what a ruthless businessman he has become; probably a lot in in part of learning from his sister, since shes the real genius.

It's how he ran his business and amassed his millions. He was just giving Augie a look at the playbook.

This was a full description of what the WEF, world leaders and pharmaceutical companies did with Covid, and it is what they will do with our food next!

For real! When I was a little kid, I asked my dad what was the rarest gem thinking he was going to say diamonds and he was like "lol, no. Diamonds aren't that rare but they're expensive." His lecture on the diamond market was my first lesson on how marketing works.

Ironically there is actually high demand for diamonds and shortish supply as china and India are starting to buy them now. Granted, I still think diamonds are just a waste of money.

@@EJD339 Well, they can be created in laboratories and if there's a thing that both China and India have is the money to invest in techonology to supply the interests of their nation.

Create the world you want to live in. I bought 1kg (2.2lbs) of man made diamonds. I give them away for free, because essentially, they are worthless.

have you seen Midnight Mass's 2 scenes about what happens when you die? my fav Flanagan monologues!

@@riro7170 yes Omg

Kevin spaceys monologues troughout house of cards are a bit better

Totally agree. Not just TV, anything cinema! ❣️

I honestly loves the twin. They are amazing, rising from proverty to where they at. Both of them are honestly great actors, and shows the siblinghood and admiration and love they have for each other until old age. You can see how much Roddy loves meddy by he is willing to die when she is the one that asked him to overdose of the pills. How much Meddy loves his brother by sticking by his sides through all the trubulane of life.

The jade eyes of the queen monologue was 👌

Those two scenes really are perfect. And the best part about them is they're both right

Agreed

And this show kinda feels like Succession but with ghosts lol

@@TheDRODOR "Succession" except here the Logan Roy equivalent made a deal with a supernatural figure for all his success and now the payment is due.

@@TheDRODORit’s better writing than succession, and this scene proves that alone

Just enterprises? Man this is done by literally all governments

​@@leotravel85Yes Party formally known as Democrats do this constantly.

Same lol.

Me too it was epic

Just now this alone has started #Lemon

Same here same here 😂

Haha same! Too good. About to rewind and watch it again on screen 😂

Let me just understand @Qhaine: Do you see this as wisdom, or something to learn from?

You do realize that Roderick Usher is the villain of the piece, right? Or did you perhaps watch this whole show and let the point sail right over your head? He's not spouting any "wisdom". It's unadulterated avarice, for which there are consequences.

⁠@@PrimetimeDThe way I view the speech is to be used from a marketing perspective. That’s the genius behind it.

Hahaha I did the EXACT SAME google search. It’s ridiculously genius.

I hope you’re kidding…

No. It is fucking lemon.

It's not brilliant, its lemon

The smart ones are the ones who have a finger on the pulse of each generation and don’t get out of touch.

This basically a long version of Cave Johnson’s lemon rant

Reminds me of Powerthist vid When God hands you lemons... You find a new God!

Never thought I’d say it, but this has replaced it to become my favourite.

Cave Johnson's?

There's still people who like to believe capitalism is perfectly fair as they're the ones benefitting from it and it isn't like, well, as described above.

The thing is... capitalism is fair and unbiased, but people are corrupt and steal.

@@PauLtus_Bmaybe pure capitalism would be fine if there wasn’t for corruption, bribery, bad faith and cronyism. If people were more involved in legislation, and were able to watch out and see what’s really going on, maybe there will be more checks and balances to keep corruption from running rampant.

@@indigop38”That wasn’t real capitalism”

​@indigop38 that's exactly what capitalism is. It's working exactly as intended by only benefitting the wealthy

Newbie to his work but why do people hate him?

​@@LordVodka313They think he's pretentious, his monologues don't have meaning or go on for too long and get boring. I entirely disagree. Midnight Mass has the most monologues out of any of his work and it's actually my favorite because of how thought provoking it is.

He’s the best writer in the biz. People either just don’t get it or just hate to hate. Personally I think he’s well aware of what he’s writing and is aware he may be a complete contradiction of his writings but that’s kinda what horror genre originally was. Holding up a mirror to the the truths of human nature that we try to avoid looking at. I absolutely love his work.

I like monologues in this but not Midnight Mass 😅 Midnight Mass did feel pretentious and crammed with word salad that has no meaning or focus, to me at least.

@@interestingusername306 No they do have meaning, but Flanagan does tend to go overboard over it at times when he's made the point 3 sentences back. And people think this criticism immediately means they hate the man, no, and I HATE THAT, in fact, I think Flanagan is the reason why my Halloween or the month of October is great, because he usually releases a series around this time, I love his works. But his long monologues are a double edged sword. People like it, but easily understandable why some people don't, and even more easily understandable why some people who do like it might think sometimes it's a bit much.

Make life take the lemons back!!

Or worse, they'd team up.

With the Kardashian part, I would have also accepted “You get a Kardashian to balance a lemon on her fat ass in a photo shoot.”

Am totally hooked on Mine Flanagan. Midnight Mass just blew me away ❣️

Those 2 speeches I have listened to on repeat. Our economy is so screwed up and those speeches capture how so perfectly. I love it so much. The worst thing? We watch that, are stunned, and then immediately hop on to the next episode/show. That’s exactly why nothing changes. We see the outcomes but we don’t care enough to do something about it

@@thejackasaur1168 Consume until you're 6ft underground, that's modern life for you.

and to think he wasn’t originally cast for this and a bunch of the show had to be hastily reshot with him as Roderick! I can’t imagine the show without his performance

me too lol!

Exact same! I was like he is me

4 year of business school in 2 minutes

@@tomarnold7284lol facts

It's the cold hard facts version of capitalism without any of the flowery bullshit about "working hard." That is why I loved this scene.

Corporatism

True , but you also have to add that “lemons” aren’t controlled by one person or company. “Lemons” have competition. Capitalism is the ability for multiple companies to compete with one and another for the best quality possible at the cheapest possible- and whatever company can do this the best wins capitalism.

finally someone else who thought this

Get it across as much as we can, people should know how deep the rabbit hole goes when it comes to corporate entities and their marketing powers

No need, this whole monologue is trying hard to prove how clever he is.

I think this scene equally needed both acting and writing to successfully pull itself off.

No it’s lemon

not just that, they seeds kill others crops so if you want to keep producing you need to start buying they seeds, they tried to do that in my country Peru introducing a new kind of potato but thanks God the government stop them to do that

Honestly, this show has been dropping a lot of "secrets" about how the rich and powerful navigate (and manipulate) this world. The show passes it off as grotesque exaggerations, but I'm not so sure anything is being exaggerated ...