Inside Benedict’s Pansexual Conversation with Sophie in Bridgerton Season 4, Episode 6

In Part 2 of Bridgerton Season 4, now streaming on Netflix, a private conversation between Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and Sophie Baek (Yerin Ha) becomes one of the season’s most important turning points — not just for their romance, but for Benedict himself. It’s the moment he brings his full self into their developing relationship, including his past loves of both men and women, and chooses to share that truth plainly with the person he loves.

Part 1 ended with Benedict asking Sophie to be his mistress, a proposal he believed was the best he could offer within the rigid expectations of the ton. For Sophie, whose own mother lived as a nobleman’s mistress,…