Sweet Magnolias Season 4: Release Date, Cast, Trailer, and Everything Else to Know

BFFs Helen, Maddie, and Dana Sue have been through more than their fair share of drama over the course of the first three seasons of Netflix's Sweet Magnolias. And after a nearly two-year hiatus, the women from Serenity, South Carolina, are about to make their triumphant return to the small screen in Sweet Magnolias Season 4.

Throughout the third season, there was a bit of a breakup between the friendship trio. Helen Decatur (Heather Headley) got into a multi-episode fight with lifelong besties Maddie Townsend (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) and Dana Sue Sullivan (Brooke Elliott) when they questioned whether she's truly happy with her on-again, off-again boyfriend Ryan Wingate (Michael Shenefelt). 

Thankfully, all was right in Serenity before too long: The Sweet Magnolias reconnected in time to celebrate Dana Sue's vow renewal with her husband, Ronnie (Brandon Quinn). As for what's next? Read on to see everything we know about Sweet Magnolias Season 4 so far.

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Sweet Magnolias Season 4 release date

It's been nearly two years since we last got to hang out with the ladies from Serenity, South Carolina, and but that hiatus will end pretty soon — Season 4 of Sweet Magnolias is headed your way on Feb. 6, 2025.

What will happen in Sweet Magnolias Season 4? 

The new season of Sweet Magnolias will pick up right where Season 3 left off, and Netflix and the cast are being fairly vague about what sort of drama to expect in Season 4. The only concrete details we have about Season 4 are that it will take place during the fall and winter and will see Helen, Maddie, and Dana Sue celebrate both Halloween and Christmas. Considering the cast just recorded a pair of Christmas songs that you can listen to on Spotify — O Come All Ye Faithful by Heather Headley, and Dylan Rysstad's original track Margarita Christmas — that holiday angle isn't extremely surprising.

What is Sweet Magnolias based on?

If you're worried about the show running out of source material, don't be. The Netflix series is based on the Sweet Magnolias book series by Sherryl Woods, and there are 11 books in the series. Woods told People in 2020 that the first season of the series pulled from the first three books: Stealing Home, A Slice of Heaven, and Feels Like Family.

Where is Sweet Magnolias filmed?

Although the ladies live, work, and have Margarita Nights in Serenity, South Carolina, that isn't a real place. The show isn't even made in the same Southern state. Instead, its cast and crew film in the towns of Covington and McDonough, Georgia. Covington is a popular locale for film and TV; it was most notably portrayed as Mystic Falls in The Vampire Diaries.

Woods said that in the books, she based the town Serenity on the real-life Sumter, South Carolina.

Sweet Magnolias Season 4 cast

There hasn't been any news about cast exits from this series, so expect everybody back in Season 4

Sweet Magnolias main cast

• JoAnna Garcia Swisher as Maddie Townsend
• Brooke Elliott as Dana Sue Sullivan
• Heather Headley as Helen Decatur
• Jamie Lynn Spears as Noreen Fitzgibbons
• Justin Bruening as Cal Maddox
• Chris Klein as Bill Townsend

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Where to watch Sweet Magnolias

Sweet Magnolias is available to stream on Netflix.