Comment Elizabeth Banks stars as an author shrunk by her scientist husband Matthew Macfadyen in this major new series – but it fails to live up to its promise, finds Josh Bell Facebook / Meta Twitter / X icon Linkedin Reddit Email Matthew Macfadyen and Elizabeth Banks star in The Miniature Wife Peacock Miniature people have been a staple of science fiction and fantasy going all the way back to Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels , and shrunken characters have taken the spotlight in everything from classic Hollywood movies like Bride of Frankenstein and Fantastic Voyage to family-friendly blockbusters like Ant-Man and Honey, I Shrunk the Kids . References to these movies and others are strewn throughout the new Peacock limited series The Miniature Wife , but the drawn-out, 10-episode show isn’t a particularly worthwhile addition to the sci-fi shrinking canon.…