{"id":311492,"date":"2026-03-03T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311492\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T20:52:08","slug":"new-miniature-wife-trailer-reveals-how-the-wife-got-so-small","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/311492\/","title":{"rendered":"New Miniature Wife trailer reveals how the wife got so small"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Downsizing, the process of shrinking someone was a fairly complex, surgical procedure. In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.avclub.com\/the-miniature-wife-peacock-first-look\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">world of The Miniature Wife<\/a>, it\u2019s more like something from Honey, I Shrunk The Kids, but even faster. It\u2019s actually pretty easy to mistakenly be shrunk down to just a few inches tall. This is due to the research of Les (Matthew MacFadyen), a man who seems to really want a Nobel to compete with his wife Lindy\u2019s (Elizabeth Banks) Pulitzer. Jealousy between partners can lead people to the worst places, and, in this case, it\u2019s led Lindy into a life in a doll house. At least Les\u2019 invention works, and at least he seems sympathetic to his now-very-tiny wife\u2019s situation, where she risks being swallowed by a Roomba and is forced to fight a housefly with a makeshift bow and arrow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Miniature Wife is based on a short story by Manuel Gonzales, published in 2014. Aside from MacFadyen and Banks, the series will star O-T Fagbenle, Zoe Lister-Jones, Sian Clifford, Sofia Rosinsky, Ronny Chieng, and Aasif Mandvi. The series will run for ten episodes, all of which will be available on Peacock on April 9. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Downsizing, the process of shrinking someone was a fairly complex, surgical procedure. In the world of The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":311493,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-311492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=311492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/311492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/311493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=311492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=311492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=311492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}