The franchise's most overdue first since Rachel Lindsay. A physician-assistant student becomes the first Asian American lead in Bachelor or Bachelorette history, and the producers move the home base off the traditional Agoura Hills mansion to Hummingbird Nest Ranch — the first season to start away from it since 2021. Ten episodes, roughly twenty-five men, a summer run, and travel to Seattle, Hawaii, Australia, and New Zealand under Jesse Palmer's third season. A significant season carried on its argument.
Slot #09 of 21 in the The Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.