So the side effects of grieving a wife will still severely affect the performance, mood, and mental health of your "innie" because their chemical and structural precursors are all there.

wouldn't say the show is ignorant of this since it's basically what Petey says in Ep 3

spoiler

00:09:59 Mark: I lost my wife a couple years ago in a car accident. This is— It’s helping me, you know?

00:10:06 Petey: I’m sorry, Mark. Mark: No, no, no. No.

00:10:10 Petey: At work…you’d come in sometimes with red eyes. We had a joke that you had an elevator allergy. There was even a song for it. But I always wondered.

00:10:32 Petey: You carry the hurt with you. You feel it down there too. You just don’t know what it is.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 6 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

The problem is that it's not "real". Under capitalism your grief doesn't count for anything it might as well not exist, it's reasons might as well not exist. In as such a character who is experiencing grief without knowing why and only exists within the context of work is the most abstract presentation of humanistic grief under a capitalist system. Our relations are so alienated this feeling itself might as well be alien itself.

They're trying to make a point. It's a show to make the viewer feel smart for "getting it". They could have made a much better one if they took the concept seriously and weren't so small minded. Mark S is going thru it in the show. That's an obvious emotional element, but it's squandered.