Benedict Confirmed to Lead 'Bridgerton' Season 4

After wild speculation at the end of Season 3, Netflix has decided to spill the tea on Bridgerton's direction for Season 4. After the series did a total 180-degree turn on following the novels for the third season and skipped over the middle-eldest brother Benedict (Luke Thompson) for middle-younger brother Colin (Luke Newton) and Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan), order will be restored, as the show backtracks from "C" to "B" and sends Lady Violet's (Ruth Gemmell) second eldest child the person of his dreams. Benedict Bridgerton, come on down! You're the next contestant on the ton's Marriage Mart!

As we noted in our Season 4 post, when the second half of Season 3 dropped, the final episode broadly hinted Benedict would be up next. For those who have not read the books (or at least Wikipedia), Benedict's story retells Cinderella as he falls wildly in love with a woman in a silver gown at the yearly masquerade ball. However, she flees the scene at midnight, leaving Benny to cool his jets for an entire social season, hunting for her among the elites. Eventually, he finds her in the last place he'd expected.

After being laid up in the country ahead of the following year's season, he falls in love with a housemaid named Sophie, who has been waiting on him, only to discover almost too late that she and the woman in silver are one and the same. For her part, Sophie turns out to be the bastard daughter of a deceased duke, whose stepmother has been forcing her to serve her stepsisters all this time.