The Miniature Wife is the situation Elizabeth Banks (Migration 3D) finds herself in, after an accidental situation leads to her being shrunk.
For Lindy Littlejohn (Banks) and her husband, Les (Matthew Macfadyen – Death by Lightning), they’re a couple who should probably have split up a while back, since they’re having to learn to fall in love again and renew their wedding vows, “New Year. New Us”. One minute they’re in love, the next they’re at loggerheads…
But like Downsizing, Les runs a company that plans to shrink food to a tiny size, so farmers can grow far more crops on the average-sized farm, but once harvested, they haven’t yet found the solution to bring the food back to normal size.
The Miniature Wife probably seemed like a great idea on paper, but onscreen, I’m not really sure where this is going. It all feels quite random, and just feels like a drawn-out version of Honey I Shrunk The Kids. And just not at all engaging.
Every now and again, it also throws in going-nowhere sideplots, such as how Les had submitted Lindy’s short-story to the New Yorker, even though it turns out it was written by one of her students.
Maybe just go back in time, shrink the script, and then forget it every existed, before it was commissioned.
The Miniature Wife begins tomorrow on Sky Atlantic, at 11am UK time, with the episode being shown again at 9pm that evening. In the US, it’s shown on Peacock.
It’s not yet available to pre-order on Blu-ray or DVD, but when it is, it will be listed on the New DVD, Blu-ray, 3D and 4K releases UK page.
Cert: 
Running time: 40 minutes per episode (6 episodes)
Release date: April 9th 2026
Studio: Sky Atlantic
Format: 2.00:1
Series Directors: Greg Mottola, Bertie Ellwood
Producer: Lori Waters
Creators/Screenplay: Steve Turner, Jennifer Ames
Based on Short Story: Manuel Gonzales
Cast:
Lindy Littlejohn: Elizabeth Banks
Les Littlejohn: Matthew Macfadyen
Gary: Shaun Majumder
Meg: Elizabeth Whitmere
Matteo: Tate Yap
Dawn: Hailey Summer
Cyd: Kim Horsman
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