The franchise's boldest structural swing in years. For the first US season, two co-leads share the entire run rather than splitting it midway — a format gamble that doubles the storytelling and complicates every rose ceremony. Twelve episodes, travel across France, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Mexico, and Jesse Palmer's first season in the hosting chair. The dual-lead premise gives the season a structural tension no single-lead book carries. An ambitious experiment worth studying for the format alone.
Slot #11 of 21 in the The Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.