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01The take
The Anniversary.
A returning anchor, an anniversary, and a season that functions as both.
02The shape of the season
A rhythm worth tracking.
Season ten carries its milestone self-consciously — the tenth-anniversary season and it knows it. A returning cast member whose presence defined the show's first run gives the season its central organizing energy, and the Barcelona trip is among the franchise's better international sequences. The cast at season's end looks substantially different from the one that started it, which gives the season a transitional quality underneath its celebratory frame. A solid entry that earns from its context.
03Where it sits in the canon
The #09 slot.
Slot #09 of 15 in the Real Housewives of Atlanta Editor's Canon. The seasons on either side show what I ranked it against.
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