Strictly average movie

It isn't all that great, actually. Really cheesy and very predicable of how certain scenes are gonna turn play out. However, I guess that's the charm of it all, because I would consider this one of my guilty pleasures.

It really made me laugh, but for some moments I was tearing up because I could relate so much.

The film may be flawed, but its message is not.

I really loved Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll! I'm kinda sad the first season is over already. The best things about this show? First, Elizabeth Gillies as Gigi. She is a great talent, charming and beautiful. She portrays the different sides of Gigi very good and is a fantastic singer. Second, the music of this show is great. There are some really awesome songs like Animal and Complicated. Best is that they sing everything live on the episodes. Third, the story is hilarious. It is a great comedy, fast and rough and I laughed out aloud a lot watching it. Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll absolutely deserves a second season! I hope we get one next year with even more great music.

It starts slow, meaning it's a bit hammy in the first few episodes, it's basically all over the place. Nevertheless (and it's a big nevertheless), by episode 4/5 it really starts to find its feet. The storytelling becomes more cohesive & the actors begin to fill the shoes of the characters they inhabit.I like that the show takes a dig at the vapid state of the current music industry & in one episode it clearly attacks the misogynistic exploitation of women in mainstream pop. Essentially it reveals there is more to this show than cheap giggles.There's not much more to say than the above. If you can get past the first few episodes you'll really start to enjoy the show. I do hope that now the show has found itself it isn't cancelled.

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.

Denis Leary plays Johnny Rock - a manipulative, egomaniacal, Washed-up, womanizing, drug-addict rock legend who is loathed by other musicians and particularly his former band-mates. He continually attempts to revive his career and vents about the excesses of the music industry that are holding him back.Formerly the front-man of the Heathens - a much loved late 1980s/early 1990s band Johnny has gradually ended up further back in his career than where he started as the series begins. His ultimate low-point comes when he puts the moves on Gigi (Elizabeth Gillies) a woman young enough to be his daughter who actually turns out to be his daughter.The hits keep on coming as she coerces him into re-forming the Heathens to serve as her own vehicle to pop stardom. Johnny is still on board to write songs with Flash (John Corbett) the former band-mate who despises him. But Gigi, who turns out to be ten times the singer her father ever was has displaced him as Heathens lead vocalist.Johnny does his level best to be a father to his long-lost daughter whilst scheming to feed his substance abuse and to regain the momentum his career once had. Diplomacy remains far from his strong suit and as self-appointed arbiter/guardian of rock 'n' roll's legacy he pulls no punches (Like Leary's stand-up act).A music historian with impeccable accuracy for someone whose mind has been blasted on booze and hard drugs for decades, his scathing criticisms and prescient observations strike with the accuracy of a stealth bomber. The show itself stages epic send-ups of rock star excess right down to the minutiae of the song-writing process which are absolutely side-splitting.Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll is nothing less than a brilliant satire of the music industry and I speak as a music critic (Uber Rock Magazine in Britain). The opportunities for mining a raunchier/grittier kind of humour that prime-time network TV won't touch make it a perfect sitcom for cable TV.Denis Leary hasn't lost any of his bite as a writer and this show is a perfect outlet.