Netflix has announced that Bridgerton season 4 will be all about the Bridgerton who put the B in LGBT+ community, Benedict. Last season saw Benedict Bridgerton gently dump his gf after a mmf three-way, because he wasn’t ready to settle down. Apparently he will be ready some time in 2025. Per Variety, Benedict’s love story will be lifted from the books. An Offer From a Gentleman sees Benedict fall for a mysterious “lady in silver,” who turns out to be commoner Sophie Beckett. A non-ton, so to speak.
Showrunner Jess Brownell went out of book order for these seasons, giving us Polin before the Lady in Silver because she wanted to explore Benedict’s pansexuality. “I knew that people out there had a feeling Benedict might be queer,” Brownell told Variety. “And personally, it made sense to me. He’s not just open minded, it’s that he seems like the type of person who wouldn’t be as concerned with gender — someone who might be more fluid and pansexual.” Hence the threesome. But now “he’s trying to find something a bit more solid in himself,” Luke Thompson (who plays Benedict) told Tudum. No official casting announcement has been made for Sophie, and Bridgerton has already genderflipped a bit with Francesca’s story, so queer love is very much still in play.
