Skip to main content
Aired September 2019–January 2020 · Bravo

The Reckoning

Cary Deuber steps back from the main cast and Kary Brittingham joins the remaining five, a change that becomes the season's central story. What starts as new-cast integration turns into the most widely covered reunion in the show's run.

Filmed
Dallas, Texas
Dallas · one new Housewife joins the core
Premiered
Sep 4, 2019
Bravo · September 2019
Episodes
17
Format
Social reality
One new Housewife, one exit from the core
Cast size
6 cast members
Five returning Housewives plus one new addition
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 Reckoning.

A new arrival, a returning five, and a reunion the whole season builds toward — RHOD's most consequential hour.
02The shape of the season

A rhythm worth tracking.

Kary Brittingham joins a returning five — Stephanie Hollman, LeeAnne Locken, Brandi Redmond, D'Andra Simmons, and Kameron Westcott — as Cary Deuber steps away from the main cast. The new addition's arrival becomes the season's flashpoint, and a resurfaced controversy over on-camera remarks turns the reunion into the most widely reported hour the show has produced. It's also LeeAnne Locken's final season with the show.

03Where it sits in the canon

The #04 slot.

Slot #04 of 5 in the Real Housewives of Dallas Editor's Canon. Season four absorbs real turnover: Cary Deuber steps back from the main cast, and Kary Brittingham joins a returning Stephanie Hollman, LeeAnne Locken, Brandi Redmond, D'Andra Simmons, and Kameron Westcott. The new addition's arrival becomes the season's defining thread, and a resurfaced controversy over on-camera remarks turns the reunion into the most widely reported hour the show has produced — addressed directly, at length, rather than glossed over. It's also LeeAnne Locken's final season with the show. The seventeen-episode run holds together competently through a genuinely difficult stretch, but the off-camera noise around the reunion pulls more attention than the season's Dallas social-scene storylines can compete with. A necessary, honest chapter — not the show at its most settled.

No spoilers. Every page is reviewed before it goes live.
05In this canon

Its Editor's Canon entry.

The Real Housewives of Dallas S4 — The Reckoning — tiered.tv