Bridgerton fans were disappointed to hear that after such a long wait, Season 3 was split in two parts. Will the same thing happen with Bridgerton Season 4?
Netflix made the call on splitting the season in half. This came partway through the writing process, so the team had to make sure there was a good cliffhanger to end the first four episodes. After all, there needs to be a reason in the story to get people tuning in as soon as new episodes drop.
This isn’t the first time that Netflix has split a show in two. We’ve seen it with You and Stranger Things. Even The Crown did it with its final season. Could we see this trend continue?
Bridgerton Season 4 could be split in two by Netflix
It wouldn’t surprise me if Netflix split Bridgerton Season 4 in two. There is going to be a two-year wait, it seems, for the season. Netflix will want to make sure it gets viewers back, and it will want to make as much money as it can from the show. The best way to do that is to split the season across two months, getting double the subscriptions.
However, a lot could change in two years. It all depends on how these split seasons do with other shows. Netflix isn’t doing it with everything, and it’s been hard to tell when Netflix will choose to split a show in two or not. We’re still waiting on You Season 5 to see if Netflix does it to that show again. And we’re waiting on Stranger Things Season 5 to see if it happens there.
Splitting it in two could work well if it was to keep the waits for seasons shorter. That was the case with Prime Video when it split Invincible Season 2 in two. With the long wait for Season 2, the first four episodes were released when they were ready. That helped to keep fans happier rather than having to wait an exact four months for the full season.
Netflix isn’t splitting for that reason, though. It’s purely financial, so it will depend on whether this is working still in two years. We could even see Netflix moving to a weekly release model, which Prime Video does for a lot of shows and is still a popular model for premium cable networks. We’ll have to see what time brings for streaming platforms.