As someone who has followed Chloë’s career on and off since, “Kids” (1995), “Boys Don’t Cry” (1999), If These Walls Could Talk 2” (2000), “Party Monster” (2003) through to Zodiac” (2007) and “Big Love” (2006–2011) I can see threads of all these other characters portrayed in Sarah. And also how Chloë’s real personality (very much of her time and also an iconoclast) that has come through in (rarely given) interviews have impacted her portrayal of this character. I’ve seen her in other roles but the following come to mind.
In “Kids” (1995), “Boys Don’t Cry” (1999), If These Walls Could Talk 2” (2000), and “Party Monster” (2003) it’s like she plays one of youth in WAWWA. She’s very much of a time and place in these parts as WAWWA is depicting youth right now. I think she was a club kid in real life like what was portrayed in “Party Monster” (or maybe just a few years too young but certainly aware of the scene).
She’s played around with gender and sexuality in ‘Boys Don’t Cry” (1999), “If These Walls Could Talk 2” (2000), “Will and Grace (2004), and “Lizzie” (2018), the latter of which I have not seen. She was well positioned to play Sarah.
But it’s perhaps her role in “Zodiac” (2007) where she’s left behind by a husband consumed with solving a crime (like Sarah seemingly leaves Maggie behind) and “Big Love” (2006 to 2011) as a wife and mother that shine through even more. Her character in that television series was very prickly, sexually conservative and rigid in her perception of what her role is as a wife and mother should be. Seemingly totally opposite of Sarah yet using the moral conviction of her role to justify her behaviour. It’s her ability to connive and manipulate her sister wives in that show demonstrates her true colours.
As it is in WAWWA. She totally dresses down and dismisses Jenny when they drop Danny and Caitlin/Harper off when is her, Fraser and Maggie that pick them up after Danny’s bad trip of which Jenny knows nothing about. By stating something to the effect of, “It’s family we need to be with right now” and, “Goodnight, Jenny” knowing she’s going home to Maggie and Fraser whereas Jenny is left with a drunk Richard and distraught Danny that let’s Jenny know that she’s aware of the affair her wife is having with her and could care less. Later her and Maggie calmly plot the removal of Richard (and by extension his family) from her base.
This last episode was, for me, a culmination of many of Chloë’s roles. Her overtly “inappropriate”
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