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Peacock Sci-Fi Comedy ‘The Miniature Wife’ Weighs Down an Amusing Marriage Metaphor With Too Much Padding: TV Review

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Peacock Sci-Fi Comedy ‘The Miniature Wife’ Weighs Down an Amusing Marriage Metaphor With Too Much Padding: TV Review
Apr 9, 2026 6:15am PT Peacock Sci-Fi Comedy ‘The Miniature Wife’ Weighs Down an Amusing Marriage Metaphor With Too Much Padding: TV Review

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Alison Herman

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aherman2006 See All THE MINIATURE WIFE --"Hurricane Les" Episode 107 -- Pictured: Elizabeth Banks as Lindy -- (Photo by: Rafy/Peacock) Courtesy of Peacock

When Lindy Littlejohn (Elizabeth Banks) complains her husband Les (Matthew Macfadyen) “made me small,” she assures her audience that the condition is “not a metaphor”: Les, a scientist, has made his spouse the inadvertent subject of the experimental “miniaturization process” he’s been working to perfect in his St. Louis lab. (Honey, he shrunk the wife!) For the purposes of the Peacock dramedy “The Miniature Wife,” however, Lindy’s new six-inch-tall stature is obviously both symbolic and literal. 

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