Bridgerton Season 4 Release Date Tease: Netflix Drops a Major Clue Fans Can’t Ignore

Like death, Bridgerton season 4 creeps ever closer. Yesterday during their upfront presentation, Netflix dropped a new sneak peek of the fourth season of the hugely popular show, teasing us with the moment Benedict Bridgerton sees Sophie—updated for the show from “Beckett” to “Baek”—or as he knows her first, “the lady in silver”, at his mother’s masquerade ball.

I love the look of Yerin Ha in costume as the lady in silver, and I especially love the look of wonder and joy on Ha’s face. In a ballroom crowded with fanciful frocks, it isn’t Sophie’s silver dress that captivates Benedict, it’s her, and the way she stands out, obviously and unabashedly enjoying the party. I see all of that in Ha, so I am very encouraged about the central pairing of Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha to lead the romantic drama for a season (though I maintain whatever ends up happening with Benedict’s sexuality is not a problem Ha should wear).

Season four will premiere in early 2026, and Netflix went ahead and announced seasons five and six have been picked up, too. We’re slightly out of book order now, and there is no information about which siblings seasons five and six will cover, but as someone who has always been skeptical that Netflix foots the (exorbitant) bill for all eight seasons, I wonder if they’ll start combining stories.

There’s a built-in way to do it—events in Francesca and Eloise’s stories overlap, so make that season five. And because Gregory’s story happens almost entirely in one day—and away from his family—it would be easy to tell his tale concurrently with Hyacinth’s, which would be the sixth and final season. That also gives a few more years before getting to Hyacinth and Gregory, as both Florence Hunt and Will Tilston, who play Hyacinth and Gregory, respectively, just turned 18 earlier this year. If Bridgerton continues their two-year pattern for producing new seasons, it will be at least three years before season six is in production, which gives them a little more time to grow up before stepping onto center stage.

But first there is season four, and Benedict’s love story with Sophie, the illegitimate daughter of an earl. The book, An Offer from a Gentleman, is my favorite of the Bridgerton series. It’s a perfect Cinderella story but it also addresses some tough realities of the Regency era regarding class and legitimacy, which was a virtually impossible hurdle to overcome. Of course, it’s a romance novel, so happy endings are the order of the day, but that Offer even bothers looking in the direction of the realities Sophie and Benedict face is more than a lot of romance novels do.

I really hope the show keeps that element from the book and doesn’t just double down on the Cinderella of it all. Benedict is swoony in no small part because he gets a huge bucket of cold water thrown over his romantic fantasy and he has to genuinely ask himself what he is willing to do—to give up—for love, and then he commits to doing it. Let sexy and determined Benedict live!

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