We need to talk about Bryan
Bryan couldn’t make it to the wedding because his doctors don’t want him travelling and/or around people. I want Bryan’s doctors.
This causes Nikki to confront Brie about how Bryan’s a liar, liar, pants on fire. She loves him and all, she just thinks he’s deceitfully ruining Brie’s life, by being forced by the company she works for, to retire, having anxiety and depression, and never wearing shoes. Brie then has to explain what having a husband means for the 700th time.
Nikki is sad because she doesn’t understand that rehabbing so she can return to her career after an injury, isn’t the same as having all your hopes, dreams, and passion stripped away like a championship belt and crushed like a calf.
With Wrestlemania around the corner, Brie is convinced by Nikki to do some MMA training for her retirement match at the show. You know, as opposed to doing it BEFORE she’s gearing up to retire. Maybe trying extra hard to get better at your job, would have had fans get behind you from the get-go.
As it stands, now that Nikki’s back on the active list, all you have to do is squint a little, and it’s like Brie’s there anyway. But both Nikki and Johnny are rightfully concerned that between Bryan’s health and Brie’s retirement match and her mom’s third wedding, she’s not getting the attention and satisfaction she should.
Johnny is lovingly concerned and understanding about her situation, but Nikki just attacks Bryan for lying about...um...I don’t think she actually named what he was lying about but damn it; she’s not happy!
Fair, we saw on the last episode, that she just misses hanging out with her sister (?), but Brie has one foot out the door of wrestling and all eyes on starting a family with her husband, so, you know, priorities.
Real quick, at one point in the episode Nikki, plays a “prank” on her mom. The gist of it is, she and Johnny and Brie are still at the training centre, and they’re gonna be late to the rehearsal dinner.
The joke is, they’re totally in the car and just 15 minutes away! “Lying until you stop” is cheap, lazy humour that I am not opposed to, but this is the only level we’re working with here, and it’s bottom shelf, at best.
