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ShowsThe BacheloretteSeason 13
Aired spring–summer 2017 · First Black lead in franchise history

Rachel Lindsay

The most historically significant season the franchise has produced. A Dallas attorney becomes the first Black lead in the show's history, and the season carries that weight without letting it flatten the storytelling. Eleven episodes, an expanded cast, and travel dates across South Carolina, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, and Spain. The lead's legal cadence sharpens every conversation, and the casting bench holds up under it. A season that finally said something the franchise had needed to say for fifteen years.

Filmed
Agoura Hills, California
Premiered
May 22, 2017
Episodes
11
Format
31 men · the franchise's most overdue first
Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, Spain
Host
Chris Harrison
On this page4 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02Where it sits in the canon
  3. 03Adjacent in the canon
  4. 04Also appears in
01The take

A milestone that delivers.

02Where it sits in the canon

The #01 slot.

Slot #01 of 21 in the Bachelorette Editor's Canon. The most historically significant season the franchise has produced, and the one it most needed to make. A Dallas attorney becomes the first Black lead in the show's history, fifteen years after the format debuted, and the season carries that weight without letting it flatten the storytelling around it. Eleven episodes, an expanded cast, and a travel run across South Carolina, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, and Spain. The lead's legal cadence sharpens every conversation, and the casting bench holds up under it. This is the season any honest reading of the canon has to put near the top — argument and execution both clear the bar.

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04Also appears in

Cross-references.

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