How ‘Bridgerton’ Embraced the Upstairs-Downstairs Dynamic in Season 4’s ‘Cinderella’ Story

While “Bridgerton” spent its first three seasons detailing the gossip, romance, rigid rules and scandalous underbelly of the Ton, the exclusive and aristocratic high society of Regency era London, the fourth installment opens the Netflix series up to the world downstairs, thanks to the “Cinderella” story at the heart of season.

Based on Julia Quinn’s “An Offer from a Gentleman,” Season 4 centers on the love story between Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) and his lady in silver, Sophie (Yerin Ha)...