'Dope Girls' Will Arrive on Hulu This July

Part of the fun (or frustration, depending on your perspective) of being a lover of British television and entertainment who happens to live in the United States is the seemingly endless task of figuring out how you can watch those programs in our country. Good news: So many streamers, networks, and niche online portals are desperate for content that the odds are better than ever that the particular British show you want will come to America somehow. The question is just where and when. Some networks (like PBS) are destinations for British content, and trumpet their acquisitions accordingly. Others simply include British releases among the endless list of titles arriving on their services each month, with some exceptions for co-productions or a buzzy hit that caused a particular stir in the U.K. And still more just drop them at what often feels like random, leaving fans to find out the show they were searching for crossed over on its own. (No, I'm never getting over The Burning Girls just randomly popping up on Roku one day.) But, every so often, the news of a new acquisition arrives, and all you can say is: Finally.

Hulu has scooped up Dope Girls, a gritty six-part period drama that follows the story of the women who were reluctant to give up the self-sufficiency (and earning potential) they'd gained during the years of World War I. (If you're thinking this show has pseudo-feminist Peaky Blinders vibes, you're not wrong.) Inspired by Marek Kohn’s nonfiction book Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground, the series follows two very different women seemingly destined to clash with one another: Kate Gallaway (Julianne Nicholson), a single mother who turns tor running a nightclub in the hopes of supporting her daughter, and Violet Davies (Eliza Scanlen), part of the first wave of female officers to join the Metropolitan Police.