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Netflix is eager to see the release of Bridgerton season 3, given that it’s one of the service’s biggest series and it needs more high profile scripted content out right now as opposed to say, The Roast of Tom Brady, currently at #1 on its Top 10 list.
Bridgerton season 3’s release date is just two days away on Thursday, May 16, which will mark the adaptation of the series’ Colin and Penelope romance. But Netflix is already thinking well ahead of that.
There is no reason to sit around and wait for Bridgerton season 3 viewing hours to come in. The series was a rare one that received a double renewal for two new seasons back in April 2021. The latest report is that production on season 4 already begun in April 2024, though it hasn’t started filming just yet.
It’s been over two years since Bridgerton season 1 was released in March of 2022, and hopefully this double renewal from 2021 can mean that it won’t be quite that long in between 3 and 4. This time, however, like most of Netflix’s big shows, the season is being split in half with four episode chunks airing a month apart. Bridgerton season 3 will start on May 16, but after four episodes, there will be a wait until June 13 for the other four. Literally, almost every big Netflix show does this at this point. Even not super huge ones like That 90s Show now, it’s getting absurd.
As for season 4, we’re not quite sure yet what’s being adapted, albeit it’s confirmed that Penelope and Colin from season 3 will still appear, as we’ve seen some disappearances happen after past seasons. Each season of Bridgerton covers a book, and each book focuses on a specific couple. They are not necessarily going in order. While season 1 and season 2 followed the first two books, Daphne and Simon and Anthony and Kate, they skipped book 3, Benedict and Sophie and moved straight to Colin and Penelope.
It’s possible they return to Benedict and Sophie for season 4, as I’m not sure just how out of order you can go here, given that there are still story throughlines between seasons, so you’d really start to mess with chronology otherwise. There are eight books in total focused on individual couples, though other epilogues and anthologies as well. I would not be shocked if in the end, Netflix adapted all of them.
So, just two more days now. Enjoy.
