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Aired August–November 2017 · Bravo

The Expansion

The founding four return, joined by two new Dallas women — D'Andra Simmons and Kameron Westcott — expanding the cast to six. It's the configuration that becomes RHOD's most stable ensemble, replacing the debut year's leaner core with a wider social circle.

Filmed
Dallas, Texas
Dallas · founding cast expands to six
Premiered
Aug 14, 2017
Bravo · August 2017
Episodes
14
Format
Social reality
Four returning, two new Housewives
Cast size
6 cast members
Four returning Housewives plus two new additions
Host
Andy Cohen
Andy Cohen hosts the reunion
On this page5 sections
  1. 01The take
  2. 02The shape of the season
  3. 03Where it sits in the canon
  4. 04Adjacent in the canon
  5. 05In this canon
01The take

The Expansion.

Six women, one settled Dallas circle — the cast configuration RHOD rides through its most consistent stretch.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

Season two grows RHOD's founding four to six, adding D'Andra Simmons and Kameron Westcott to a returning Cary Deuber, Stephanie Hollman, LeeAnne Locken, and Brandi Redmond. The wider cast gives Dallas's church-and-charity social scene more room to run, and the six-woman configuration proves durable — it's the lineup the show carries, unchanged, into its next season, the closest thing RHOD has to a settled core.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #02 slot.

Slot #02 of 5 in the Real Housewives of Dallas Editor's Canon. Season two is the hinge point of RHOD's early run. The founding four — Cary Deuber, Stephanie Hollman, LeeAnne Locken, and Brandi Redmond — welcome D'Andra Simmons and Kameron Westcott, and the resulting six-woman cast turns out to be the configuration the show trusts most: it returns completely unchanged the following year. Fourteen episodes is a tighter runway than the founding season's cast-building work deserved, and there's visible seams while the new additions find their footing against Dallas's established church-and-charity social scene. But the chemistry lands fast, and by the season's back half the expanded cast already feels durable. Second in the canon: the origin of RHOD's best-known lineup.

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05In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.

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