{"id":443737,"date":"2026-01-28T21:17:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443737\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T21:17:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T21:17:08","slug":"bridgerton-season-4-is-regency-fantasy-escapism-at-its-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/443737\/","title":{"rendered":"Bridgerton season 4 is Regency fantasy escapism at its best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bridgerton S4, Vol 1 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605<\/p>\n<p>Where to find it: Netflix<\/p>\n<p>First aired: January 28, 2026<\/p>\n<p>Who\u2019s in it: Luke Thompson, Claudia Jessie, Yerin Ha, Ruth Gemmell, Golda Rosheuvel, Julie Andrews (voice), Polly Walker, Hannah Dodd<\/p>\n<p>Who made it: Chris Van Dusen (creator, show-runner, executive producer), Jess Brownell (show-runner); Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Julie Ann Robinson (executive producers)<\/p>\n<p>Based on the Bridgerton series of novels by Julia Quinn<\/p>\n<p>Season time commitment: 8 x 54-73-minute episodes<\/p>\n<p>Dear gentle reader, it is with no small measure of anticipation that one sharpens one\u2019s quill to report on the return of a most scandalous enterprise. Netflix\u2019s Bridgerton, that bejewelled juggernaut of Regency fantasy, has unfurled the first half of its fourth season (volume one, four episodes reviewed here), with the remaining instalment to arrive fashionably late on February 26.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bridgerton S4, Vol 1 \u2605\u2605\u2605\u2605 Where to find it: Netflix First aired: January 28, 2026 Who\u2019s in it:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[64,63,134,427],"class_list":["post-443737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}