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The cast finds its shape.
Six women, one settled Dallas circle — the cast configuration RHOD rides through its most consistent stretch.
Fourteen episodes, three more than the debut.
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.
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.