BBC One’s fictional historical drama series is based on real events detailed in the 1992 Marek Kohn book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground, which has been adapted here by playwright Polly Stenham with Alex Warren and others. They set the stage by introducing audiences to post-World War I London, where Kate Galloway (Julianne Nicholson) is a housewife, mother, and sometimes butcher now fallen on hard times. Just like her real-life counterpart Kate Meyrick (an Irish woman known as the “Night Club Queen)”, this Kate signs up for a life of crime when she teams up with a dancer named Billie Cassidy (Umi Myers). These aren’t the only sisters doing it for themselves: there’s also Violet Davies (Eliza Scanlen), one of ten women recruited to be England’s first female police officers, and Isabella Salucci (Geraldine James), a mob matriarch that Kate crosses paths with. Julianne and Umi strip down to their period undergarments to dispose of a body, but it’s Nudecomer Umi’s body that’ll grab your attention when she stands up in a tub and bares her beautiful backside. That’s one dope derriere!
