The first season of Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll is already near the end, but I have the feeling it just started. It is a great show with harsh, sometimes painfully true humor about family and music. The first season evolves about former rock star Johnny Rock who gets one more chance at fame when Gigi, the daughter he never knew he had, shows up. She wants to get Johnny's old band the Heathens back together, but she wants to be the lead singer herself. It turns out she is amazingly talented - and by the way so is actress/singer Elizabeth Gillies, who plays Gigi and performs all music live on the show. What follows is both a great look behind the scenes of a rock band and a very disturbed family. It is a fantastic combination of comedy and music and a bit of drama. All actors perform the music them self. As said Elizabeth Gillies turns out to be a true talent. The music in itself is very good too. Especially Gillies' songs are a gift to the ear. A very good find of FX. I am very excited to see what next season will bring.

Good points...Sharp, witty dialogue. Good chemistry among the cast. I'm Scottish, so I like the swearing, but it needs to be more creative. Negatives...Leary's character is pretty much the saddest most emasculated man I've ever seen. He's constantly bitched at and he's been henpecked so much he probably tastes like chicken. It's witty, in a 'downtrodden hero, oh woe is me' kind of way, and the dialogue distracts the less perceptive from how sad he is. He's old, but even autumnal tree's can grow a pair of fruits, would be nice to see him do the same. Bonus nudges...The daughter is hotter than a Greggs sausage roll just out the oven. She's aw that, and a bag of chips.

This is a show I've been waiting for. Finally a funny, laugh out loud comedy has come to TV again. The premise of Leary being a washed up rock star is the perfect vehicle for his smart ass comedy to shine through again. But it is not only Leary who shine in this show, his choice of Elizabeth Gillies as his daughter, who is trying to break into the industry is perfect. Not only is she talented as an actress, but man, this girl can sing. Not some auto-tuned pop princess. As Joan Jett said "This girls gonna be huge. The music in the the show is good, old rock and roll, something that is sorely missing today. I also love the fact that they take to task the sorry state of the music industry today. Seeing 'Lady Gaga' dressed as a green pyramid caused me to actually spew my drink across the living room. The other actors compliment the leads very nicely, they actually seem like they were once rock stars now on the setting sun side of fame. And having rock royalty like Dave Grohl and Joan Jett doing cameos doesn't hurt. I hope this show goes on for a few more seasons, because this one is actually really good. Give it a watch. You won't regret it. Rock On!! \m/ \m/

The joke about starving on an island surrounded by fish isn't really that funny. It shows that no one on the show knows their history. At the time of the blight the Irish were enslaved and only allowed two acres of land to raise their families - and with potatoes you got a pretty good crop. They worked half of everyday for the overlord who often occupying the home/castle that once belonged to the serfs. Even though they raised cattle and sheep and fished on the Baron's 'land' that food was all returned to England. Any poaching, even fishing, put you into forced hard labor right through the winter and without proper clothing or shoes, worked to death as in the 'Road of Tears'. I'm not saying anything about the English other than I could care less what the royal pap is wearing but we all have to watch out for the long arm of tyranny, even today. So even starving during the blight they were still expected to work for the man half of the day often preparing food that they were not allowed to eat.