Total Bellas recap: Bryan and Nikki go head-to-head

Bryan talks to the guys about the family's recent argument over the size of their new home.

It’s fight night on E!’s Total Bellas, featuring the first spat between Nikki Bella and Daniel Bryan. The matter on the table is the house Bryan and Brie Bella are trying to build, which they’d like to top out at around four bedrooms and 2,000 square feet. Literally everyone else in the family insists they build bigger, with Nikki being the biggest champion of that idea considering that Brie, not too long ago, had voiced an interest in having a larger home. Somehow in all of this, Nikki’s humility is called into question by Bryan. Tempers flare, voices are raised, and while they end up apologizing to each other, it turns out this tussle is only the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Nikki tells Lola why she thinks Brie has changed.

On a semi-related note, Nikki is becoming increasingly convinced that Brie is deferring too much to Bryan in dress, demeanor and ambition, with her main argument being that Brie used to be a lot more fun before she was married to Bryan. During a bachelorette-type trip for Kathy (doubling as a celebration for the newly-expecting J.J. and wife Lauren), Brie dips into her old Brie Mode stores for an old-school good time, but passive-aggressive tension lingers between the sisters. Nikki’s still convinced Brie is putting Bryan’s happiness before her own, while Brie is frustrated Nikki can’t grasp the concept of changing as she grows farther and farther away from her party-girl phase. To be continued …