01The take
The modern era begins.
02Where it sits in the canon
The #08 slot.
Slot #08 of 21 in the Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The season the passport opens. An interior designer from British Columbia becomes the franchise's first Canadian Bachelorette, the producers expand the cast to thirty men, and the calendar stretches to twelve episodes with travel dates that finally take the format overseas. The casting reads broader and warmer than the founding run, the international stops do real editorial work rather than serving as backdrop, and the production scale clears a bar the show had been circling since the post-hiatus reboot. The modern Bachelorette starts to look like itself here. Required viewing for understanding how the travelogue era became possible at all.
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