Scientologist Rebecca Minkoff is pregnant or lying

Just when you think Evil press tour cannot infiltrate any more of the human experience, the forces that have dug their claws into the world of Well done. It’s so scary that everywhere I look there is something Evil this way comes.

Indeed, we understand. No one is more likely to see Evil because Sai took his daughter to a fashion show inspired by the movie adaptation. No. At least when The Real Housewives of New York City did an in-show ad for The crowd and Sonja Morgan talked about the riot that is Anne Hathawayit was camp. This is psychological warfare.

And it makes sense that this season would feature a little ad wheel Evil which in practice seems like a good corporate synergy, but is just lifeless in reality. We’re about halfway through season 15 of RHONY and the season is still struggling to find purpose. Finally, though, the cast has honed in on a plot that could save us all—if only it weren’t so confusing.

Rebecca Minkoff might be pregnant… with another man’s baby… after a steamy one-night stand. Or maybe it’s all a little joke. Huh. In theory, it’s the biggest plot twist a Housewives franchise could ask for, whether it’s a wild little lie or the scandal of a lifetime, so why is RHONY threw sleepwalking through the reveal? Wake up ladies, it’s show time.

It’s not about the plot itself; it’s about how you present it. In theory, The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City arguing about Alibaba drop-shipping isn’t exactly a riveting idea. It’s Meredith Marks’ transatlantic regret and Whitney’s QAnon accusation that give it all some punch.

So although a pregnancy scandal of a alleged Scientologist should be the explosive drama RHONY must prove the naysayers wrong, it simply fell short – for now. This may just be the tip of the iceberg, or it may be the last domino to fall in favor of anti-RHONY brigade.

How does it all go down? Well, the A-team of the cast sits down to lunch to touch the plot as transparently as possible. Brynn has taken it upon herself to become the drama queen of the cast, self-proclaimed a pot stirrer in her signature, put-on baby voice, to mixed results. Here she tells Jessel that Jenna thinks she’s a “basic bitch”, negating the fact that Brynn was the one pushing that line of thinking and Jenna refused to play ball.

Brynn’s pathological lies have become so brazen that this entire cast would turn on her reunion time if any of them even cared about each other. Betrayal of trust doesn’t count as much, though, as they see Brynn as that one weird colleague who’s fun to chat with but who you have to keep at arm’s length.

Brynn is simply trying to pull off Aviva Drescher, even though she’s not quite on the same footing. She’s just a little too ready to pull off this archetype.

On the other hand, Erin continues to step up as the cast with the most classic Housewives energy. Erin drops the bombshell that Rebecca might be pregnant, and also lets slip that the father might be a big mystery — and little do we know, it might all just be an elaborate lie. Her calm demeanor while gossiping about this explosive rumor scratches that Housewives itch. It’s just fun.

Maybe Erin just wants to divorce Rebecca so the two of them can commiserate after she’s freed herself from her own marriage. Apparently Erin’s husband was crazy once, so maybe he can get back to exploring in his single life. Become the next Kyle Richards, King! Or maybe it’s a convoluted attempt to prove that Brynn is an untrustworthy gossip, feeding her an obvious lie and waiting for her to blow it out of proportion.

I’m not exactly sure what’s going on here, but for the first time all season I’m theorizing. I’m eager to see what’s next — all the while realizing that handling this plot-line could further jeopardize the shaky season.

For some reason, the rumor comes to life at a game of dodgeball. Maybe all the pickleball courts were booked for the day. At the game, the cast discuss Sai’s little hot mic moment where she accidentally admitted that Rebecca is a boring presence on our screens.

Sai didn’t know that Rebecca is giving us an affair story just to shake things up. She is a philanthropist who fights for the good of this show, only to be drowned out and destroyed by all her co-stars. And now the Church of Scientology has come to a standstill RHONY to a life of corny drama and an ever-growing fan rebellion against this milquetoast season.

The Real Housewives aren’t quite willing to bare it all on screen, so they’ve found a scapegoat in Rebecca. Kudos to Brynn who manifested this drama through pure hate energy. She must have been so excited. There’s nothing like your unwarranted ick for someone to find validation. If it all turns out to be a lie, she’s going to short out to a frightening degree.

Brynn, who I’m pretty sure… isn’t gay, in a “Move, I’m Gay” shirt tells the whole cast the hot gossip. I’m on the fence about Brynn in general, but her saying “we all have our reasons” and then winking at Rebecca when she said she was sober got a real laugh out of me. Rebecca’s proof that this cast needs some real fish out of water to balance out the stiff energy as she accidentally makes everything more fun.

She is a flop queen of the highest order. Whether she’s carrying a baby remains to be seen, but honestly, she’s carrying the show. I won’t go so far as to say it’s good or anything, but hey. When the autopsies drop, I don’t want to see anyone blaming the Scientologist cheater who acts like a robot on camera.

And as much as I want to cringe at Jenna’s inability to play the game, at least she steps up in Dodgeball to expose Brynn’s lie to Jessel and deliver the news back to Rebecca. At her best, Jenna can function as a normie Carole Radziwill, doing her best to serve as a moral compass through her own skewed perspective, and here she finds purpose.

Jenna does the classic thing of telling Rebecca that she heard something terrible about her, but she can’t say what. It is the worst thing a human can do. Unfortunately for Rebecca, it looks like the rumor might be true as she figures out pretty quickly what’s wrong and blasts Erin for exposing it – before revealing that it was all…a soap opera- fabrication. What?

The two smile as the episode ends on a cliffhanger, leaving us to wonder if it was all an elaborate ruse or something else entirely. It’s… cool. It’s fat. I will say that. Maybe they’re all sleepwalking through this plot because it’s simply made up. It’s too early to say and hard to understand until the other shoe drops next week.

It is not about the plot itself, but how it is presented. This could be the weirdest Housewives plot all season, and it could be one that revitalizes the show. Next week, we’ll find out if Erin is a Machiavellian villain pulling strings on her unwitting puppets, or if the cliffhanger ending was just a ploy to fool us, the audience, too.