Warning: spoilers ahead for Bridgerton season 4 part 2.
The final episodes of Bridgerton season 4 are finally out on Netflix – and swooning fans are feeling extremely hot and bothered.
In part 2 of the latest season, the love story between Benedict (Luke Thompson) and Sophie (Yerin Ha) dramatically comes to a head, with the Bridgerton family saving Sophie from arrest, and Benedict doing everything in his power to marry the woman he loves.
After eons of yearning, Benedict and Sophie finally sleep together in a night of fervent passion – but their bathtub scene, which comes in a later episode, is the one that has viewers losing their minds.
It’s an iconic moment that diehard fans of the books have been waiting for, and which apparently took seven hours to film (and left Yerin with folliculitis).
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Benedict and Sophie get in the bath together, and he gently helps wash her hair, before she turns around and starts kissing him passionately.
Before anything can escalate further, she tells him that they can’t have sex as she doesn’t want to risk getting pregnant before their future is more secure.
Benedict responds: ‘Then we will not,’ and tells her to turn around, so he can instead pleasure her with his hand. As he’s doing so, she reaches behind and does the same for him, so they reach their ‘pinnacles’ together.
As Bridgerton fans have previously discovered, turning on the audio description setting on Netflix takes the period drama’s raunchiest scenes to the next level, as the narrator describes every detail of what’s happening on screen.
What did Metro think of Bridgerton season 4 part 2?
Metro’s TV Editor Sabrina Barr shares her thoughts in her four-star review:
Bridgerton just made me cry for the first time.
I’ve been a big fan of the fantastical period drama ever since it began, and the emotionally-charged moments always have me in a chokehold.
From Daphne and Simon confessing their love to one another in the rain, to George telling Charlotte that he can’t breathe when she’s not near, this Netflix series has the ability to make me gasp and swoon in equal measure.
But season 4 part 2 delivers an earth-shattering gut punch that makes the show feel more grounded than ever before.
I won’t go into specific spoilers, given viewers need time to binge the four new episodes, but those who’ve read the books will know which heartbreaking twist I’m alluding to.
To read more, click here.
For this scene, the audio description describes how Sophie ‘melts backwards into him’ as Benedict’s hand ‘works beneath the water’s surface’ – and you’ll have to turn on the setting on your own Netflix to find out the rest.
Fans who watched part two on the day of release were left in a state of awe by the bathtub scene, with one called Marrisa writing on X: ‘The bath tub scene was so much hotter than I even imagined I – wow.’
An X user with the aptly Bridgerton-themed handle @mycottagehq insisted that the bathtub scene was ‘better than their first time’, while @benophiebase remarked: ‘Benedict joining Sophie in the bathtub… it’s quite literally over for all of us watching that scene.’
Another viewer called Rhea described the intimate moment as ‘legendary’, saying that they‘couldn’t concentrate on anything else after watching that’.
However, one fan called @polinolicity said that they felt ‘a little upset’ by the way that the scene was changed from how it unfolds in the book.
‘The book bathtub scene was so sweet with Benedict washing Sophie’s hair and not joining her in the water, just caring for her without it having to be about sex,’ they wrote.
Ahead of the release of season four, Luke, 37, and Yerin, 28, spoke to Metro about how their romance develops in the fourth season, which delves deeper into the upstairs-downstairs dynamic of the Ton for the first time.
‘It’s just so nice to receive so much support and love. That’s always a positive,’ Yerin said, of the support they’d received from ‘Benophie’ fans.
‘There are so many scenes to explore. Their love story is constantly… the context is changing, and they sort of change with it. It’s just so juicy to be able to explore all of that together,’ Luke added.
Bridgerton season 4 is available to stream on Netflix.
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