With the hype of Bridgerton Season 4 in full swing, many fans of the Netflix series are dying to know which Bridgerton will fall in love for Season 5.
The Netflix Bridgerton series was adapted by primetime TV royalty Shonda Rhimes and is based on Julia Quinn’s bestselling book series of the same name. The show is set in the competitive world of Regency London’s high society and centers on the Bridgerton family. We’ve already seen four Bridgerton love stories play out with Anthony, Daphne, Colin, and now Benedict.
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Netflix confirmed that the series will continue with seasons 5 and 6, but with 8 Bridgerton siblings in total, and 4 more left to go, who’s in the running?
Who Is Bridgerton Season 5 about?
Bridgerton showrunner Jess Brownell teased that Season 5 and 6 would be about Eloise and Francesca. At the Season 4 premiere of the show, Brownell wore two pocket squares with the initials E and F. “I would say both characters with the initials on my pocket squares will get seasons in 5 and 6,” the director told Deadline. However, she kept mum about who the next season could possibly be about.
“I know who is scheduled next,” she told Us Weekly. “It could always change, like [the order] has changed in the past.” The showrunner referred to when Benedict and Colin’s seasons were swapped.
The author continued: “My hope is that all the siblings will eventually take the lead because we love them [all]. That was kind of the whole point of the books is that you’ve got these eight separate stories, but they’re all connected.”
As to what to expect from the next season, executive Shonda Rhimes teased on Sirius XM in October 2025 that it’ll be “a really sexy season … But then again, I say that about season 4.”
“They’re just sexy in different ways,” she said. “And I think that’s what’s great.”
“You’ll learn really soon [who stars in Bridgerton season 5],” Brownell recently told Decider. “We tend to make an announcement close to the start of production about who the new leads are. So you should expect that this season as well.”
If you need a summary of the love stories of the two sisters, we’ve got you covered. In the fifth book in the series, To Sir Phillip, With Love, Eloise becomes pen pal with Sir Philip Crane and eventually falls in love with him. In the sixth book When He Was Wicked, Francesca Bridgerton ends up with not one, but two husbands: John Stirling and Michael Stirling. She marries John in Season 4 of the Netflix series. In the book, John suddenly died. Francesca found solace in his cousin Michael and the rest of the story explores their romance.
However, with the introduction of Michaela in place of Michael, Francesca will have a queer love route. “The reveal of Michaela versus Michael, from the books, is something that I’ve been pitching from season one of the show,” Brownell told Teen Vogue. “My approach to telling a queer story on Bridgerton has been to look to the books for thematic cues.”
She also confirmed that she got the blessing from author Julia Quinn for the change. “We talked about the fact that with almost any single book, there would be a side of the fandom that would be disheartened to see their favorite characters changed. I don’t think that there is any book that wouldn’t happen with, so for me, again, it came back to story, and it came back to character. Because Francesca’s book resonated [with me] in the way that it did, it felt like a natural adaptation.
Whether Francesca or Eloise, we’re eager to fall deeply in love with their stories like with the rest of the Bridgerton siblings!
Published Date : 2026-02-26 22:41:00
Source : stylecaster.com
