Dope Girls on BBC1 will definitely appeal to fans of Peaky Blinders, but this is a gang of hardened women and is set in 1920s London rather than violent male gangsters from Birmingham. The six-parter stars Mare of Easttown’s Julianne Nicholson and focuses on a forgotten time in history, where the streets of London’s Soho were home to female gangs running the clubs, drugs and moonshine. She plays Kate Galloway, a single mum who establishes a nightclub during the hedonistic time after World War One, embracing a life of crime in order to provide for her daughter.
Dope Girls also stars Little Women’s Eliza Scanlen as Violet Davies, an undercover cop investigating the criminal world of underground nightclubs.
