The Miniature Wife is a new Peacock series that the streamer describes thusly:
In this relationship dramedy about a couple struggling with the imbalance of power in their marriage, a husband (a scientist) makes his wife (a novelist with writer’s block) feel figuratively small and unheard. Then, he accidentally shrinks her to six inches tall so now she’s literally small and unheard as the metaphor becomes real. This is an exploration of the fragility of love and ambition, cloaked in the absurdity of its premise. But at its core, it’s a love story and a remarriage story. As they struggle to navigate the sobering truth of her new, miniature reality, they are forced to confront whether their marriage — and their love — can survive. Perhaps, miniaturization is the epic reset these two needed to tackle the biggest crisis of their lives and fall in love all over again.
Elizabeth Banks plays the titular wife, Matthew Macfadyen is the husband, and I am the person who generally loves fiction about people who get shrunk very little but currently am not really interested in watching an entertainment property where the woman is so literally diminished, even if that is surely the literal point. But maybe this will surprise me! I was surprised to see Elizabeth Banks wear something so severe and funereal to its premiere, so anything is possible.
