Bridgerton just dropped its first look pictures for season 4 and fans are officially hyped. So much so, they are complaining that it isn’t available to binge like, right now.
Netflix released a few pictures of Benedict Bridgerton’s love story, which will be the focus for the next season after his brother Colin and Penelope Featherington’s carriage romp – and er, happily ever after – in the third.
Enter Sophie Baek – played by Yerin Ha – a victim of tragic circumstances, who Benedict bumps (and apparently grinds) into at Lady Bridgerton’s famed masquerade ball, which will be shown in the first episode of the new season.
One picture in particular has captured Dear Readers: that of Benedict slipping off Sophie’s glove and giving her a smacker on her palm, in a moment that’s steamier than a washing machine after a full power cycle.
Naturally, fans went into an aristocratic spin.
‘Need it NOW,’ @andrewnavs begged, echoed by @CludiaAzevedo3 saying: ‘I. NEED. IT. NOW!’
‘THIS OMG I LOVE IT,’ @lumoslovegoodd said, while @fleurjooonie wrote: ‘IM SCREAMINGGG.’
@counterfetts added: ‘I’m about to eat this UP.’
‘The costumes, the drama, the romance—it’s all coming back in style,’ @DeepikaaMurugan wrote.
‘HE LOOKS AT HER I’M GOING TO DIE HE HAS NEVER BEEN SO SERIOUS,’ @AgkAg45441 added.
‘Bridgerton season 4 looks hot, can’t wait to binge-watch it,’ @blesskatty commented, with @beckettbaikaw predicting: ‘SEASON 4 IS GONNA BE THE MOST PERFECT SEASON EVERRRR’
This comes after showrunner Jess Brownell revealed the Netflix period drama’s new family will be ‘villainous’ in its upcoming fourth series.
In this season Katie Leung, 37 – Cho Chang in the Harry Potter film franchise – will play the twice-married, twice-widowed Lady Araminta Gun in the series.
Her two girls, Rosamund Li (Michelle Mao) and Posy Li (Isabella Wei), will debut on the marriage mart, as Lady Araminta feels the pressure to get at least one of them married off.
At a fan event for the show in London, Brownell said of Lady Araminta’s family: ‘I think in the books specifically, Araminta and Rosamund are quite villainous characters.
‘They’re some of the biggest villains in the Bridgerton book, they are still villains absolutely in our show, but I think there’s a difference between meeting a character on the page versus seeing them embodied by an actor like Katie or Michelle.
‘And so it was really important to us to humanise those characters, and understand why are they villains? Why are they making decisions that we might not agree with?
‘Katie and Michelle bring such humanity and vulnerability to those roles.
‘So while you might not agree with all of their choices, I think we will certainly understand them as people.’
She went on to say that season four, which is titled Season Of Love, would have an ‘upstairs, downstairs’ dynamic, with viewers seeing more of the characters who work for the rich families.
Brownell added: ‘I think the most exciting part of this is that we have these fantastic actors, who have had smaller roles over the years, and so we’re getting a chance to go downstairs, meet new characters, see new sets.
‘And you really learn a lot about the upstairs characters from their downstairs characters.
‘So this is in Bridgerton House, and is one of our fantastic sets, and you know, in Bridgerton House, even the downstairs is beautiful and kind of like a dream, I would 100% live downstairs.’
She went on to say that she was not sure whether she would be happy to live downstairs in some of the show’s other houses, and said this reflected on the characters who owned them.
A preview trailer for the upcoming season was also released on Friday, giving fans a peek into the cast filming the show.
The show’s actors can be seen holding clapperboards, while shots of their characters roaming around the programme’s luxurious estates are interspersed.
Debuting in 2020, Bridgerton is based on the series of books by the same name by US author Julia Quinn, with each previous series focusing on each child from the prestigious Bridgerton family getting married.
Season four will see the family’s bohemian second son Benedict (Luke Thompson), loath to settle down, until he meets a captivating Lady In Silver at his mother’s masquerade ball.
At Friday’s event, fans were given a first look at the masquerade ball from the Bridgerton book Offer From A Gentleman, which will be featured in episode one of the upcoming season.
A release date for the eight-part series is yet to be announced.
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