Total Divas Recap: Nikki Confronts Eva Marie, WrestleMania, Brie Makes An Announcement, More
Last week: Everyone hates Eva and Brie is worried about being able to start a family. This week: The Divas prepare for WrestleMania!
Brie is complaining about Eva. Does Brie do anything else but complain about Eva and talk about her fertility issues?
Nikki tells her mom she's planning to talk to Eva. Well, she says "talk" but I secretly suspect she means "yell at incoherently." Naomi feels left out after sticking up for Eva. The "everyone hates Eva for no real reason storyline" continues.
Nattie talks to Alundra Blaze about the Hall of Fame and they bond over women's wrestling and whatnot. Alundra looks amazing. Ah, times like this I miss the '90s. All the bad hairdos and grunge music.
Nikki and Eva meet up. Nikki's Hall of Fame hairstyle looks great. Eva calls Nikki the leader of the divas division. I don't know if that means much when the division is in the state it's in. Nikki is ostensibly trying to make amends with Eva, but instead just seems to be trashing her even more. "At the end of the day, none of us think of you as a wrestler," Nikki says. OK, then. This is the WWE divas division, remember, not All Japan Women circa 1995 or anything. Not that you would know it from the way Nikki goes on. It appears Eva Marie should be shamed for being hired specifically for her looks...in a company where virtually every other woman was hired specifically for her looks. This storyline makes little sense.
Nikki accuses Eva of playing the victim. Well, yeah, because she is, in fact, the victim in all of this. On the bright side, Eva is doing something cool with her hair. I can't wait to see it. Anyway, this "peace talk" ends up being a bit of a disaster. Nothing is settled and things seem worse than ever. Eva seems like the sanest person on this show...which probably doesn't say much for this show.
Later, Brie comforts Nikki and they bond over how terrible Eva is. This is like Mean Girls but no one involved is remotely as cool as Regina George. Nikki cries a lot and is a little hysterical but not to the point she risks messing up her nice hairdo. Brie tells her she's amazing and empowering and a role model to young girls. How long will this ego massage session last? This show is only an hour long last I checked.
Mr. Eva tries to give Eva advice on how to deal with the haters. Mr. Eva seems to spend his life giving Eva advice on how to deal with the haters. Does he have a job or anything?
Paige gets her WrestleMania moment and Bryan inducts Connor into the Hall of Fame. It's very sweet. So is Nattie hanging out with her dad. Brie is clearly thrilled when Bryan wins the IC belt. Paige even weeps before her match.
We get clips of the women's tag match at WrestleMania, too.
Bryan and Brie go to a fertility clinic. "We're gonna find out if we're fertile!" Brie gushes. This is a perfectly appropriate issue to discuss on live televison, of course. The nice lady doctor even asks how WrestleMania went. I suspect this is scripted since this doctor doesn't look like she's heard of WrestleMania or even WWE. Happily, it turns out Brie and Bryan are medically cleared to have babies. Which is good, because future generations will need Bryan's superior beard-growing genes.
Presumably encouraged by the news that she is 100% fertile and can have kids whenever she wants, Brie announces she's saying in WWE with her sister. That's nice. Eva is probably sweating though.