The universe positively shifts each time Netflix and Shondaland launch a brand new promotional asset for Bridgerton Season 4: Benedict Bridgerton and Sophie Baek’s romance. Maybe it’s due to the enjoyment the romance sequence brings and spreads amongst its ever-growing admirers. It may be due to the three-season, multi-year anticipation resulting in the revelation that Luke Thompson’s Benedict will lastly lead a Bridgerton season. The joy may additionally be as a result of Netflix and Shondaland have discovered the proper Sophie in Yerin Ha.
The fact is that every one of these enchanting particulars come collectively to create actual magic round Bridgerton Season 4’s Cinderella-retelling. Thompson and Ha’s first joint photoshoot and interviews commemorating the beginning of Bridgerton Season 4’s manufacturing are headlines for followers. A brand new perspective of an already-released interview between Thompson and Ha can create a buzz throughout social media for weeks, if not months. This newest addition to the promotion of Benedict and Sophie’s season can be particular – maybe for a motive unbeknownst to informal Bridgerton followers.
From the beginning, Netflix and Shondaland promote the sequence by having the solid learn an excerpt from that season’s respective e book. In spite of everything, Bridgerton is impressed by Julia Quinn’s romance novels – Season 1 with The Duke and I, Season 2 with The Viscount Who Beloved Me, and Season 3 with Romancing Mister Bridgerton. Benedict and Sophie’s story in Bridgerton Season 4 is impressed by Quinn’s An Supply from a Gentleman, an interclass romance with a Cinderella twist. As in seasons previous, Netflix and Shondaland shared a video of Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha studying from the e book.
In contrast to seasons previous, they’re the one two featured within the video popping out effectively earlier than their season. The one sample with this staple in Bridgerton’s promotion is that Netflix and Shondaland normally launch these readings from Quinn’s books after the respective season premieres. As an example, The Duke and I video options many ensemble members, together with the feminine lead, Phoebe Dynevor, however lacking the male lead, Regé Jean Web page. The streamer shared the video a couple of days after Season 1 premiered in December 2020.
Bridgerton Season 2 – Anthony Bridgerton and Kate Sharma’s story – premiered in March 2020. A video of the solid, together with each Jonathan Bailey and Simone Ashley, studying The Viscount Who Beloved Me appeared on Bridgerton’s social media a month later in April 2022. The third season’s rollout of this beloved bit stands out – it’s the primary season of the romance sequence to be break up in half, with episodes launched a month aside. The day after Season 3’s first 4 episodes premiered, Bridgerton’s X account posted a video of the ensemble, together with each Luke Newton and Nicola Coughlan, studying from Romancing Mister Bridgerton. Then, Netflix shared a video of solely Newton and Coughlan studying from the e book the day after the ultimate 4 episodes aired in June 2024.
As a result of Netflix and Shondaland launched the movies for the earlier three seasons after the episodes aired, it’s unsurprising that the solid learn excerpts effectively into the books. They’ll learn from the spicy scenes Bridgerton brings, with its interpretation, from Quinn’s pages to the small display screen. They aren’t spoilers at that time. In the meantime, Luke Thompson and Yerin Ha learn the primary paragraph of the primary chapter of An Supply from a Gentleman. All their passage reveals is:
“This yr’s most sought-after invites should absolutely be that of the Bridgerton masquerade ball, to be held Monday subsequent. Certainly, one can not take two steps with out being compelled to hearken to some society mama speculating on who will attend, and maybe extra importantly, who will put on what.”
Thompson and Ha break up the 2 sentences, ending with the emphasis on the masquerade ball and its costumes. The present alerts the masquerade as (considered one of) Season 4’s huge set piece(s) in Bridgerton Season 3, Episode 8, “Into the Gentle.” Eloise, leaving Mayfair behind for an prolonged interval in Scotland with Francesca (and her new husband, John Stirling, and his cousin, Michaela), assures Benedict that she’s going to return within the new yr. Eloise is aware of her attendance is required when she rhetorically asks, “Do you assume Mama would ever let me miss her Masquerade Ball?” Benedict responds, “I supposed not. I will probably be there, hiding out behind a masks, avoiding eligible girls just like the plague.”
Bridgerton Season 3 leaves Benedict in that outwardly definitive place of avoiding love and marriage. However the digital camera lingers on him when Eloise leaves, highlighting the loneliness of Benedict’s “hiding place,” suggesting that he might want one thing extra. Girl Whistledown’s writing pulls that subtlety along with Julie Andrews’s voiceover, including, “It’s time now to look towards the longer term, no matter it might carry.” That line calls again to 1 from Benedict earlier within the episode, which defines why he’s extra inclined to remain in his hiding spot.
On the enduring swings, Benedict tells Eloise, “It feels proper now that the following issues I would study might change me solely.” Showrunner Jess Brownell advised TV Line that Benedict’s dialog with Tilley about what he needs leads Benedict to this place of change. “I feel that he’s somebody who has by no means been in a position to commit. Not solely to an individual, however to a path or a ardour or perhaps a pastime. He’s a renaissance man and that comes with it, the flexibility to do a lot of various things. I feel he could be beginning to understand that whereas he has a variety of breadth in his life, he doesn’t have depth. In order that’s one thing we’ll be carrying ahead.”
Benedict bodily strikes towards that change in that last scene (past the one with the Bridgerton household) in Season 3. The place does that lead him? The masquerade ball, the place he’ll put on a masks, and a girl who by no means imagined she may attend such a celebration dons a stunning robe. It’s no marvel that Netflix and Shondaland have already known as Sophie the Girl in Silver, like in An Supply from a Gentleman. The opposite movies of the Bridgerton solid studying from the books function excerpts that solely occur after that change – after the meet-cute, after the strain builds, after the love types. This video for Season 4 begins at first of Benedict and Sophie’s story, documenting Benophie’s fairytale journey one step at a time.
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