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Dasha Nekrasova, Jeremy Strong, Nicholas Braun, Annabelle Dexter-Jones in Succession<\/i> (Photo: Macall B. Polay\/HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Amidst the chaos at Waystar Royco and the usual devastating Roy family drama\u2014the FBI raid, Shiv<\/a>\u2019s open letter about Kendall\u2019s mental health, Roman\u2019s daddy issues\u2014something else stuck out in the most recent episode of Succession<\/em><\/a>: the dynamic between Cousin Greg (Nicholas Braun) and Comfry (Dasha Nekrasova), Kendal\u2019s new crisis PR rep.<\/p>\n

\u201cDisruption\u201d finds Comfry and Greg partying with Kendall and his entourage, sipping champagne and reading out cringe-worthy tweets about Kendall\u2019s attempted takedown of Logan (Brian Cox) in a limo on the way to a gala for the Committee for the Protection and Welfare of Journalists. At the after party, she fawns over the $40,000 watch Greg thinks Kendall is buying for him. They flirtatiously compliment each others\u2019 wrists, and ultimately Greg buys a watch he can\u2019t afford at least in part to impress her.<\/p>\n

Later in the episode, as Kendall prepares to get skewered on TV by host Sophie Iwobi (Ziwe, playing a version of her own persona with maybe a little Samantha Bee<\/a> mixed in), Greg and Comfry again discuss the watch. She\u2019s less impressed by in now that he\u2019s discovered that it doesn\u2019t work, and Greg is clearly flustered by her apparent disinterest.<\/p>\n

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Nicholas Braun in Succession<\/i> (Photo: Peter Kramer\/HBO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This isn\u2019t the first time the two characters have been paired for amusingly awkward banter. In the premiere, we\u2019re introduced to Comfry by way of Cousin Greg. She and her partner are waiting to meet with Kendall, while nearby Greg is attempting to cancel his mother\u2019s credit card. He attempts to make small talk, offering to pass along any relevant tweets he\u2019s compiled in the few hours he\u2019s been doing Ken\u2019s \u201cmedia monitoring.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can find them,\u201d she replies. \u201cThey\u2019re on Twitter, right?\u201d She then listens bemusedly as he unloads about his mother panic-buying smoothies and crypto currency in the wake of Kendall\u2019s salvo against the Waystar Royco.<\/p>\n

Does anyone else feel like a new power couple might be developing? From what we\u2019ve seen so far, Braun and Nekrasova have fantastic chemistry. As Greg he\u2019s perpetually confused and adrift, bumblingly eager to please. He is 100-percent the type of boy who would develop a crush on the attractive new blonde who is suddenly in his orbit all the time. Comfry, meanwhile, is hyper competent and maybe a little aloof. Still, she seems amused enough by Greg not to totally discourage him.<\/p>\n

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Dasha Nekrasova at the Succession<\/i> Season 3 premiere (Photo: Theo Wargo\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Their dynamic is not dissimilar to that of Shiv (Sarah Snook) and Tom (Matthew Macfadyen): the Alpha female and Beta male. Tom, of course, has been something of a dubious mentor to Greg since Season 1. The two of them are the ineffectual outsiders even within the Roys\u2019 inner circle, and they share a certain willingness to be led, a befuddlement that betrays a need to guided by the more capable power brokers around them. Maybe they also share an attraction to strong, aggressive, professional women who have the aptitude they lack.<\/p>\n

Greg certainly needs someone savvy in his corner this season. He\u2019s basically been buffeted around the company for the past couple years, a pawn in his family\u2019s power games. But now he\u2019s at the center of Kendall\u2019s attempted coup\u2014and potentially the government\u2019s investigation in to Waystar Royco. He is, after all, the source of the documents pertaining to the cruise division\u2019s abuses. But there\u2019s no one, not even his grandfather (James Cromwell), who is really looking out for his<\/em> best interest. Perhaps the best thing for him right now is to unwittingly bumble his way into a genuine\u2014or as genuine as it gets on Succession<\/em>\u2014romantic alliance with someone like Comfry.<\/p>\n

And what about Comfry? What might she potentially see in Greg? As with Shiv and Tom, the pairing seems lopsided, as far as power, money and influence go. But maybe she sees in Greg the same thing a lot of real-life women reportedly<\/a> see in Braun: a sweet, boyish, nerdily handsome, non-threatening guy. 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