‘Sweet Magnolias’ EP On Season 4’s Shocking Death & Its Aftermath As Main Cast Member Departs

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SPOILER ALERT: The story includes details about Episodes 402, 403 & 404 of Netflix‘s Sweet Magnolias. Season 4 of Netflix’s small-town romantic drama Sweet Magnolias — about Serenity best friends Maddie, Dana Sue and Helen, their families and love lives — goes through several emotional highs and lows.

Episode 2 delivered one such big swing when, right after her wedding to Cal, Maddie finds out that her ex-husband Bill has died.

The news is delivered by her in-laws, who come to Serenity for the funeral. With Bill’s death, Chris Klein, who played him for the first three seasons, has become the first Sweet Magnolias series regular cast member to leave the show.

The last time we saw Bill was in the Season 3 finale where he, along with Dana Sue’s scheming sister-in-law Kathy, left town together after Kathy’s brother Ronnie paid her to do so (but not before Kathy made a sweet gesture to her brother as she started off on her redemption arc that continued in Season 4).