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My interpretation:
Owen watching The Pink Opaque represents observing, exploring, and questioning her gender identity. That's why when Matty (Owen's inner female self trying to show her her real gender identity) first asks Owen to run away and she doesn't follow her (doesn't allow her egg to crack), the TV is shown burning during the scene where the police are investigating Matty's disappearance (Owen burning her desire to question her gender identity anymore)
When Owen watches The Pink Opaque again as an adult, she comments on how childish the show seems nowadays, because she's ashamed that she ever questioned her gender identity when she was younger, an experience many trans people who cracked their eggs in adulthood go through
There is no Isabel in the show because at that point, Owen had completely pushed down her desire to identify as a woman
Sorry if this is hard to understand I'm kind of illiterate
Sometimes you suppress it so hard that it feels like a false memory after the fact, because you've been so thoroughly conditioned to expect reprisal that you just shut out the thoughts, mannerisms, and intrinsic tendencies completely, to the point that your denial may include some unhealthy overcompensation... I think the film illustrated this a little bit with the Fight Club-esque smash cut flashbacks to Owen trying on the purple dress while hanging out with Maddy; shots that were never shown in the other scenes because Owen had suppressed the memories.
imo the tv is supposed to be the border between "real" life and the show / transitioning and it burning is matty destroying that border and crossing over