After the news that Bridgerton Season 4 will officially be coming next year, we’re learning a little more about the upcoming season. The season will be based on Julia Quinn’s third Bridgerton book, An Offer from a Gentleman, and feature Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) as the leading man. Now, composer Kris Bowers is dishing on the music for the upcoming season as well as the connection to its prequel series, Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story.
Bowers tells Shondaland that “I created a slightly different sound, which was a lot of fun in terms of fresh instrumentation and approach to the music for the Bridgerton world.” He says, “There’s a slight connection to Queen Charlotte for me [personally] because of the fact that you’re seeing people who are maybe not as commonly seen in high society.” We also already know that the sound of Taylor Swift is returning once again to the series (“Enchanted,” please, we beg).
What Will Season 4 of ‘Bridgerton’ Be About?
Bridgerton Season 4 follows Benedict as he meets Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha) at a masquerade ball. It’s the same ball mentioned at the end of Bridgerton Season 3, which followed Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington’s (Nicola Coughlan) love story. If the season follows the book as closely as
Thompson has previously promised, there will be a time jump after Sophie and Benedict’s meet-cute, with him searching for his Lady in Silver (the nickname he ascribes to her after never learning her name that fateful night). They don’t meet again until he rescues her from a party, where she’s a maid. Eventually, Sophie becomes a maid in Bridgerton House and Sophie tries her best to deny the forbidden romance building between her and Benedict.
Each Bridgerton season so far has followed a “trope” commonly found in modern romance novels. The first season, which followed Daphne Bridgerton (Phoebe Dynevor) and Simon Basset (Regé-Jean Page) followed the fake dating trope.
The second season was the enemies-to-lovers theme between Kate Sharma (Simone Ashley) and Anthony Bridgerton (Jonathan Bailey). Season 3 was friends-to-lovers between Colin and Penelope. Now, we’ve got a Cinderella-style forbidden romance because of the class difference between Benedict and Sophie. Last year, Ha told RUSSH:
“She [Sophie] is always reminded of her place and doesn’t dream of more than her station as a maid. However, she is human after all, and craves that human-to-human love and connection. And it’s not until she meets Benedict that she slowly lets her guard down, bit by bit, and starts to create space to let love flow in for her.”
You can watch Bridgerton and Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story now on Netflix. Stay with Collider for the latest updates.
