The franchise's most ambitious passport run. A dental student from Maine takes the calendar as the show's first dentist lead, and the producers respond with twelve episodes, dates in Thailand and Fiji, and a casting bench deep enough to hold the longer runway. The locations do cinematic work the mansion never could, and the season carries the travelogue confidence the prior summer locked in. A high-confidence hold even when the emotional pitch sits a notch below the top.
Slot #12 of 21 in the The Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.