A small problem is the subtitle that in Italy has been added to the miniseries The Miniature Wife, a pity that the series has much more than a small problem. On the contrary, we could broaden the range of problems to Peacock, the Universal platform that does not really have an identity and that has remained tied to the USA alone, and to Sky Italia that with the release of the HBO titles has different problems, trying to abandon the authorial world of the past but finishing to fish in a reservoir of titles in second vision or forgotten.
The Miniature Wife is part of this reservoir of forgetable titles. In this case, the problem lies a little upstream, at the very root of the project drawn from a story and ordered by Peacock. Why do 10 bets? But even more because ordering a series like this that does not have clear what it wants to be in a time when there is a super abundance of TV series? They probably expected Elizabeth Banks and Matthew Macfadyen to pull public and critical, perhaps to travel the series to some nominations. The mission, however, failed, the miniseries was overwhelmed by indifference and rather negative criticism in the USA.
Basically he wanted to be a grotesque reflection, at times surreal, of the life of a couple of professionals made, of dreamers who seek glory trying to hold a marriage parallel. Lindy is a Pulitzer Prize writer who has published only one successful novel and has been stuck in a creative crisis for 18 years, Les is a scientist who dreams of the Nobel and has found a formula to restrict sinful food who does not know how to make it come back great. After the umpteenth quarrel, for a mere coincidence, Lindy is shrouded and put by Les in the House of Dolls.
A premise that would be perfect for a raging comic digression at the Roses War of 90 minutes, 120 minutes to say so. Instead, in the contemporary madness of the seriality that finds more funding than the films, they have become 10 bets with the need to stick different storylines only to broaden the storyline.
The tone is closer to the surreal than to the real, the whole series moves in the cross between serious and done without being able to find its direction. All this ends up seemingly forced and exaggerated, including actions and reactions of individuals, to the point that even the intent to analyze the life of a couple and its power imbalances ends up losing. It would have been a nice and pleasant TV movie, for 10 episodes is more a kidnapping in person especially considering everything else that is around the various platforms.
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