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Jennifer Maas
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LIAM DANIEL/NETFLIX The fourth season of “Bridgerton” could have easily been a filler season if it weren’t for Yerin Ha.
The “Cinderella”-themed season focused on Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson), the spare to heir Anthony (Jonathan Bailey). His dissolute, debauched lifestyle was due for a reckoning and could have sunk into tropes of the season’s theme.
But it was the introduction of Ha as Benedict’s mysterious love interest Sophie Baek that kept Season 4 from merely becoming a bridge between the eldest siblings’ love stories and the younger set’s as the show marks the halfway point in its eight-season plan to adapt the works of romance author Julia Quinn.
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