The era closes on confidence. An assistant district attorney from Atlanta becomes the franchise's first lawyer Bachelorette, and the producers respond with eleven episodes, dates across France, Italy, Belgium, and the Dominican Republic, and a casting bench that holds up under cross-examination. The lead's bench-side cadence reshapes the cocktail parties — questions land sharper, dodges land worse. The most articulate Bachelorette of the early canon and a clean send-off for the show's first ten seasons.
Slot #13 of 21 in the The Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.