Bridgerton Season 4: Release date, plot, cast and predictions

Dear gentle readers, it is with great pleasure that we bring to you the new updated details of the much-awaited Bridgerton season 4. Bridgerton has been renewed for Seasons 5 and 6, it was announced this week.

‘We’re not done yet,” wrote the makers on Instagram. The announcement reads like a Lady Whistledown newsletter and goes, “It is with great pleasure I can announce Bridgerton shall return for Seasons 5 and 6. Do celebrate accordingly. And in the meantime, do prepare yourselves, for Bridgerton Season 4 shall debut in 2026.”

What happens in Bridgerton season 4 and when is it releasing?

If you’re also guilty of watching the past three seasons as soon as they debuted on Netflix, then fear not, as season 4 is comfortably under production in full swing. A second teaser for the forth season of Bridgerton was released online recently.

After experiencing the sizzling chemistry of Daphne and Simon, Anthony and Kate’s fiery love story, and Polen’s sweet journey to romance, it is now time for our favorite from the lot, Benedict Bridgerton to shine finally. In May 2024, Bridgerton’s showrunner Jess Brownell confirmed that the series team of writers were in the middle of writing the new season.

Season 4 of Bridgerton will focus on Benedict Bridgerton, the second oldest sibling in the family. As seen previously, Benedict has silently struggled with finding love and his true soulmate, but all that changes in season 4 where he will encounter Sophie Baek at a masquerade ball hosted by his mother Violet Bridgerton.

Bridgerton Season 4 is based on Julia Quinn’s 2001 novel An Offer from a Gentleman, the third book in the eponymous eight-book series. In the novel, Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) falls in love with Sophie Beckett (Yerin Ha), an earl’s daughter who has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother.

According to a recent press release by published on Netflix’s companion site Tudum, Sophie’s surname has been changed to Baek in the show to respect Ha’s Korean roots.

“As a victim of tragic events, Sophie has been forced to spend much of her life working for the most demanding employer in the ton. But the resourceful Sophie always finds a way to persevere through her circumstances — circumstances which will drastically change after she disguises herself to attend Violet Bridgerton’s masquerade ball and meets Benedict,” reads the official synopsis of Bridgerton Season 4 on Tudum.

When is Bridgerton season 4 coming out on Netflix?

As per reports, Bridgerton season 4 went into rolling action right after season 3 aired on Netflix. Although there isn’t any confirmed release date announced yet, on 16th September 2024 Netflix announced that the show has officially begun production.

“The scripts that Jess [Brownell] and her team have come up with are dynamite. They’re really, really, really exciting. The storyline is a bit of a twist on Cinderella. You remember being told those stories as a child — the magic and the romance of them. It’s really exciting to have that weaved into the world that we know of Bridgerton… It’s such a great story, but it’s also, I hope, really relatable,” said Luke Thompson to Netflix’s Tudum after some of the first season 4 rehearsals.

If you felt like waiting between Season 2 and 3 was not painful, that’s because we got the iconic spinoff of Queen Charlotte. But it seems like we are not getting any other spinoff from the Bridgerton ton as of now. While the official date is yet to be announced, we would suggest you start rewatching the previous seasons at a slow pace until season 4 hits Netflix.

(By Suchismita Maity)