Director: Greg Mottola, Bertie Ellwood
Cast: Elizabeth Banks, Matthew Macfadyen, Zoe Lister-Jones, Sofia Rosinsky, O-T Fagbenle
The Miniature Wife is a 2026 American comedy-drama series directed by Greg Mottola and Bertie Ellwood, starring Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen. The show uses a bizarre sci-fi premise to dissect modern marriage, power, and the quiet battles fought inside a relationship that looks perfectly normal from the outside.
What is The Miniature Wife about?
Lindy and Les appear to have a functioning marriage — careers, a home, the usual compromises. Then a freak technological incident shrinks one of them down to a fraction of their normal size, and suddenly every assumption about who holds the power in this household is up for renegotiation. What begins as absurd domestic chaos becomes a darkly comic excavation of control: who sets the agenda, whose needs are treated as default, and what happens when the person who was always managing things from the background is literally too small to be ignored. The series unfolds as an escalating standoff between two people who realize they have never truly settled the question of equality in their own home.
Cast & crew
Elizabeth Banks brings sharp comic timing and an undercurrent of real frustration to Lindy, while Matthew Macfadyen — widely known for his work in prestige drama — leans into the absurdity with a straight-faced physicality that makes every ridiculous situation land. Zoe Lister-Jones, Sofia Rosinsky, O-T Fagbenle, and Sian Clifford round out a supporting cast that keeps the domestic world feeling densely inhabited.
Context & significance
For Persian-speaking viewers abroad, The Miniature Wife arrives at a moment when stories about marriage power dynamics resonate deeply across cultures. The series asks questions that are universal: who sacrifices more, whose ambitions take precedence, and what does genuine partnership actually look like? Its comedy-drama blend — using science fiction as a magnifying glass rather than a spectacle — sits in a tradition that Iranian audiences have long appreciated, where the genre wrapping is a vehicle for something more personal. The show is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles, making it fully accessible to Farsi-speaking diaspora viewers who want sharp, dialogue-driven television.
Where & how to watch
The Miniature Wife is available on K-Time with Persian subtitles. Watch on your browser, TV, or phone — no VPN needed, no geo-blocking, no extra download required. Subscribe once and cancel anytime.