Dearest gentle reader… After much speculation, it was revealed that Benedict Bridgerton will lead Bridgerton season 4. Now it has just been announced that Yerin Ha will play his love interest, Sophie Baek. The hugely successful series follows the loves and lives of the Bridgerton family, a high society Regency Family who seem to have scandal and romance running in their veins.
Each plot is punctuated by salacious scandals appearing in a mysterious newsletter written by ‘Lady Whistledown’ (who we know to be Penelope Featherington). The first series focused on the fourth Bridgerton child and eldest daughter, Daphne, as she enters high society and navigates the many potential suitors offered to her. Moving through the family, the second series told the story of Lord Anthony Bridgerton, the eldest son and head of the family. The most recent third series premiered in two parts in May and June 2024, and delved into the love story between Penelope Featherington and Colin Bridgerton. Viewers are no doubt already feverishly anticipating the next series; find out everything we know so far below.
Bridgerton season 4 release date
There were over two years to wait between the second and third series; fingers crossed we won’t have to wait quite as long this time around to catch up with the Bridgertons and see Benedict’s main character glow-up. Though we know that pre-production and preparations for filming are well underway, it’s too early to know when the series will land on Netflix. If we’re really lucky and production moves quickly, perhaps we can hope for an air date in late 2025. Though we may be waiting until 2026 for Benedict’s Bridgerton story, according to showrunner Jess Brownell.
“We are working to try and put the seasons out more quickly, but they do take eight months to film and then they have to be edited, and then they have to be dubbed into every language,” she continued. “And the writing takes a very long time as well, so we’re kind of on a two-year pace, we’re trying to speed up, but somewhere in that range,” Jess told the Hollywood Reporter.
Watch the season 4 teaser
Watch the trailer below revealing Benedict as the face of season 4.
Bridgerton. Golda Rosheuvel as Queen Charlotte in episode 307 of Bridgerton. Cr. Liam Daniel/Netflix © 202LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX
What will happen in Bridgerton season 4?
As previously mentioned, Benedict and his search for true love will take centre stage in the upcoming series. This will principally involve the character of Sophie Baek, played by Korean actor from Australia, Yerin Ha (Halo, Dune: Prophecy), who catches his attention at a masquerade ball hosted by his mother, Violet Bridgerton. Sophie is in disguise as the mysterious Lady in Silver, because in reality she toils away as a maid for ‘the most demanding employer in the ton’, due to tragic events in her life, according to the Netflix website. Yerin says of her upcoming starring role: ‘what drew me to Sophie was that she immediately has obstacles — something that she constantly has to overcome’.
We have already seen Benedict involved in various romantic dalliances in the first three seasons, so is this the point where Benedict will leave his bohemian lifestyle behind and settle down? According to Luke Thompson, ‘Benedict has always been a little lost — or free depending on the way you want to look at it. But now he’s trying to find something a bit more solid in himself’.
