Bridgerton Season 4 Part 2 arrival reshapes soundtrack rollout and global drop times

Why this matters now: bridgerton season 4 part 2 not only finishes Benedict’s story arc but changes how viewers will first hear most of the season’s pop-to-strings covers—many premiering inside the episodes themselves—and it arrives with staggered local release times that affect when fans can watch. The second half also completes a split season structure that created a month-long wait between drops.

Bridgerton Season 4 Part 2 changes the rollout for music and viewing

Part two shifts the discovery pattern: seven new orchestral pop covers will reach audiences primarily through the episodes rather than pre-release streaming. That creative choice delays wider soundtrack access until the on-screen premieres, altering how fans encounter and share new arrangements. The season split means viewers experienced Part 1 in January and then waited nearly a month for this follow-up; Part 2’s timing and the inside-first music strategy together create a different promotional arc than a single drop.

Release times, episode count and how to access the drop

The second half premieres on Thursday, Feb. 26 at 3 a. m. ET / 12 a. m. PT on the streaming platform. For Australian viewers, the episodes land on Feb. 26 at 7 p. m. AEDT. Part 2 contains four episodes (episodes five through eight), bringing Season 4’s total to eight episodes. The episode titles for the entire season are:

• Part 2 consists of episodes 405–408, released together on Feb. 26.
• To watch the show you need a membership with the streaming platform; its current tiers include: Standard with ads starting at $7. 99 per month, Standard (no ads) at $17. 99 per month, and Premium (no ads) at $24. 99 per month.

Episode-by-episode music breakdown and soundtrack timing

The second half brings seven new orchestral pop covers, allocated across the final four episodes as follows:

• Episode 405: three covers — a Peter Gregson arrangement of a Charli XCX song, a Billie Eilish track performed by a string ensemble called Gemini Strings, and a Teddy Swims song performed by the Vitamin String Quartet.
• Episode 406: two covers — a Cars track performed by Altum Quartet and a Sting song performed by Music Lab Collective.
• Episode 407: no featured covers; this episode focuses entirely on the original score by composer Kris Bowers.
• Episode 408: two covers — a Camila Cabello song performed by Strings From Paris and "The Night We Met" by Lord Huron performed by Joni Fuller.

The full soundtrack will be released the same day, Feb. 26, through a record label on streaming platforms. Most of the new covers will be heard for the first time within the episodes themselves rather than being released in advance.

Story beats in the second half and remaining tensions

Season 4 centers on Benedict Bridgerton (played by Luke Thompson) and his evolving relationship with Sophie — named in context as Sophie Beck, Sophie Beckett and Sophie Baek — with the story picking up after Part 1’s cliffhanger. Benedict, pressured by his mother and society to find a wife, met a masked “Lady in Silver” at a masquerade and kept searching for her after she vanished at midnight, leaving only a white glove. That masked woman is revealed behind the mask as Sophie, the illegitimate daughter of an earl whose father’s death left her in servitude under a cruel stepmother.

Benedict rescues Sophie from a group of drunken men during a rainstorm and brings her to his cottage to recover; the two share a kiss by a lake though Benedict initially doesn’t recognize her as the masked stranger. Later, Sophie is hired as a maid in the Bridgerton household at Benedict’s request, and jealousy and lingering looks signal mutual feelings. At the end of Part 1, Benedict tells Sophie she has consumed him and asks her not to be his wife but his mistress, which deeply upsets her and causes her to run off. The showrunner explained that being asked to become a mistress is, for Sophie, the worst possible outcome given her upbringing and education.

At the end of Episode 4 it’s revealed that Sophie’s cruel stepmother and stepsisters are moving in next door to the Bridgerton home in Grosvenor Square. The Featheringtons’ longtime maid, Mrs. Varley, is working with them after resigning when Lady Portia refused to give her a raise.

• Key takeaways:
  • The second half arrives Feb. 26 with four episodes (405–408).
  • Seven new covers span three of those episodes; Episode 407 contains only original score.
  • Most covers premiere inside the episodes, and the full soundtrack is released the same day as the drop.
  • Personal and class tensions (the mistress proposal, the stepfamily moving next door) remain central to the drama.

Here’s the part that matters for fans of the music and binge-watchers: because most covers debut in-episode, early viewers will shape initial reactions before the wider soundtrack arrives. The real question now is whether staging the soundtrack this way will increase organic discovery and discussion when the episodes land.

Timeline highlights: Part 1 debuted in January (with a specific earlier date noted as Jan. 29 in context), the full list of final-part covers was revealed on Feb. 24, and Part 2 premieres on Feb. 26.

What’s easy to miss is that the creative choice to withhold most covers from pre-release streaming makes each episode a primary listening event, not just a viewing one—that’s a promotional move with measurable effects on playlist streaming and conversation as the drop unfolds.