Whereas Benedict and Eloise’s Bridgerton season 3 goodbye might need been brief and candy, it left an enormous Easter egg in its wake.
On the finish of the season finale, which hit Netflix on Thursday, June 13, Eloise (Claudia Jessie) determined to depart London for the Scottish countryside. Her sister Francesca (Hannah Dodd) was already planning a transfer to the Highlands along with her new husband, John Stirling (Victor Alli), and his cousin, Michaela (Masali Baduza).
After Eloise chooses to ditch the London society scene, she informs her older brother Benedict (Luke Thompson) and notes that she’s going to return residence quickly sufficient.
“Do you assume Mama would ever let me miss her masquerade ball?” Eloise says.
Whereas Netflix has but to prominently function Girl Violet (Ruth Gemmel) internet hosting the bash onscreen, it performs a pivotal function in Benedict’s literary love story.
In An Provide From a Gentleman, Julia Quinn’s third novel in her Bridgerton collection, Benedict meets his eventual spouse, Sophie Beckett, on the masked event. The pair have an easy dialog on a balcony simply exterior the get together, besides Benedict fails to get her title. Sophie was sporting a masks, complying with the gown code, leaving Benedict unable to get a have a look at her face.
Benedict spends a lot of the remainder of Provide looking for Sophie in a Cinderella-esque story line. Unbeknownst to the second-eldest Bridgerton sibling, Sophie is correct below his nostril all the time, working as a maid for his household.
Eloise’s line concerning the “masquerade ball” has woke up the “Benophie” stans’ hopes that Benedict would be the subsequent star of the present.
“BENEDICT BRIDGERTON SEASON 4 LEAD I’M SAT,” one fan wrote by way of X on Thursday.
One other added, “Benedict season 4 right here we come! between the point out of the masquerade ball, his dialog with Eloise on the swings and the voiceover speaking about wanting towards the longer term with solely him in shot … Sophie is coming!”
Netflix has not introduced which Bridgerton sibling would be the subsequent lead, and 35-year-old Thompson has no concept if the distinction shall be his.
“The sincere reply is ‘I don’t know,’ however I do know it’s so beautiful [and] probably the greatest issues about TV jobs is you get to actually discover a personality long-form like that and form of fill him in slowly,” Thompson stated on The View earlier this month. “So long as I maintain getting to try this, [but] clearly, it’d be nice to actually dive in at one level.”
It is usually potential that Francesca would be the subsequent season lead since a gender-swapped model of her guide love curiosity arrived within the season 3 finale.
Bridgerton season 3 is now streaming on Netflix.