It is funny how people are still complaining about Samara even though you can choose to not do anything with her. You can look away, you can choose not to kiss her, and you can go to the beach alone to meet Rosalind. You met Samara once at a park bench to catch up.
You have to go through the motions of her telling MC over and over how she is in a deadend job and her deadend relationship with her diner boss/cook who keeps fondling her during shifts making MC neauseated ... while this game makes MC sit around feeling sorry for himself to let the two oversexed dead end brain dead nobodies have at it.
Those scenes are there to make you see how MC feels like shit about the shit life those idiots keep rubbing in his face the whole game, a good reason why MC is so telegraphed and out of it all the time around those pricks, while they tell MC over and over how shit their lives and their relationship are.
We are talking about the feels - they are shit because the life of MC is shit
in that part of town and around those two dumb assholes.
This is the game, this is the writing - we are not complaining, just echoing the garbage feels those scenes evoke,
with good reason, to pile on the MC what despicable people he was living among before his ”mommy” saved him.