--- description: Find out why The Real Housewives of Atlanta has one of the most influential reality TV seasons of all time. title: The Real Housewives of Atlanta: The 50 Most Influential Reality TV Seasons image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58556c96b0b7c348/698a344ddb298738b5268101/real-housewives-of-atlanta-reality-tv-1.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Aug 04, 2022 # The Real Housewives of Atlanta Season 6 (2013-2014) by [TIME Staff](/author/time-staff/) ## TIME Staff Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close  Season 6 of 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta' Season 6 of 'The Real Housewives of Atlanta'Jeff Gentner—Bravo/NBCUniversal/Getty Images It makes sense that _The Real Housewives of Atlanta_ has been one of Bravo’s top-rated series since it premiered in 2008\. As the third iteration of [Bravo’s still-expanding _Housewives_ franchise](https://time.com/5929741/real-housewives-beginners-guide/ "undefined"), _Atlanta_ had the difficult task of proving it could live up to the success of its Orange County and New York City forebears. It did just that and more, delivering first-rate drama, immaculate shade, and countless meme-able moments. In its sixth season, _Atlanta_ became the first _Housewives_ series to feature an all-Black cast, a group that included longstanding franchise heavyweights Kenya Moore, Kandi Burruss, [Porsha Williams](https://time.com/90833/porsha-williams-apologizes/ "undefined"), and all-star NeNe Leakes. With [4.63 million viewers](https://web.archive.org/web/20140222214014/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/02/11/sunday-cable-ratings-the-walking-dead-tops-night-real-housewives-of-atlanta-keeping-up-with-the-kardashians-more/236089/ "undefined"), the season’s 14th episode, “Peaches Divided,” which chronicled the explosive fallout from the previous episode’s pajama party-turned-brawl, is still the [highest-rated episode in _Real Housewives_ history](https://web.archive.org/web/20140222214458/http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2014/02/11/bravo-and-oxygen-media-score-record-ratings-on-sunday-night/236392/ "undefined"). The main players of season 6 continued to drive _Atlanta_ to new heights for years, eventually propelling the show to the center of [Bravo’s network-wide reckoning with race and inequality](https://www.vulture.com/article/bravo-real-housewives-reckoning.html "undefined") in 2020\. _The Real Housewives of Atlanta_’s subsequent season featured what was praised by [Vulture](https://www.vulture.com/article/bravo-real-housewives-reckoning.html "undefined") as a “uniquely successful reality-TV depiction of the Black Lives Matter movement.” Now in its 14th season, the ladies of _Atlanta_ continue to embody the perfect blend of relatable mess, hysterical humor, and out-of-touch extravagance that has turned the _Housewives_ franchise into a cultural phenomenon. —_Megan McCluskey_ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"Article","@id":"https://time.com/collections/reality-tv-most-influential-seasons/6198519/real-housewives-of-atlanta/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/collections/reality-tv-most-influential-seasons/6198519/real-housewives-of-atlanta/"},"headline":"The Real Housewives of Atlanta","datePublished":"2022-08-04T12:33:15.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-03T00:05:32.135Z","description":"","url":"https://time.com/collections/reality-tv-most-influential-seasons/6198519/real-housewives-of-atlanta/","keywords":["franchise"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58556c96b0b7c348/698a344ddb298738b5268101/real-housewives-of-atlanta-reality-tv-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Staff","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-staff/"}],"creator":"TIME Staff","articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt58556c96b0b7c348/698a344ddb298738b5268101/real-housewives-of-atlanta-reality-tv-1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/collections/reality-tv-most-influential-seasons/6198519/real-housewives-of-atlanta/","name":"The Real Housewives of Atlanta"}}]}] ```