The modern template, fully assembled. A San Francisco advertising manager who had walked away from a Bachelor season for a job returns with the calendar in her hands, and the producers meet the moment with the most confident international run the show had attempted. Eleven episodes, dates across Iceland, Portugal, Turkey, and Tahiti, with casting that fills every cocktail party with personality. The season the format stops apologizing and behaves like a travelogue with editorial argument behind every stamp.
Slot #04 of 21 in the The Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.