Smallville Episode Review: ABRA CADABRA!

So I have to say Hex is one of this year’s highlights in season 8. I’ll give you a brief rundown of events.
The show starts with Chloe’s birthday party and Lois has to cut out early. Cue Zatanna! And how beautiful she is! Zatanna decides to grant Chloe a birthday wish and in that moment it just so happens her biggest desire is to be like Lois. So when she wakes up the next morning she IS Lois. And comedy ensues. Chloe finds out what it’s like for Clark to work with Lois and she can tell that he is in love with her. So eventually Chloe figures out how she got this way and tells Clark what is going on. So they go to find Zatanna and when they do she tells Chloe she will go back to normal when she no longer wants what she wished for. Then she grants a wish to Clark, who in that moment just happens to be thinking about what life would be like if he didn’t have those pesky powers. UGH another powerless Clark episode. But this time it is actually done pretty well. I love the part where he whips out his phone and calls 911. Then of course when Chloe tries to tell him he has powers and attempts to hit him with a big metal bar. Classic!

Meanwhile Zatanna is looking for her father’s spell book which she has learned that Lex acquired before his untimely demise. So she goes looking for Oliver who has recently merged Queen Industries with LuthorCorp. She tells Oliver that if he can get her that book in the next 24 hours she will grant him a wish. (Because that has worked so well for everyone else.) Anyway so Green Arrow manages to finagle his way into Lex’s personal collection and steal the spell book and decides that he is gonna burn the book because of all its dark power. Well Zatanna has other plans so she ties his ass to a pole with chains by saying a little chant backwards. NICE! She then attempts to use the book to bring back her dead father. So there she is on the top of the Daily Planet Building resurrecting her dead pappy when Chloe is still trying to convince Clark he has superpowers when she gets so frustrated that she must have wished she was herself again so she could show Clark what is really going on, because then BOOM she was Chloe again. So then Clark snaps out of it and realizes he has his powers. He then proceeds to either Superjump or Fly to the top of the Building. It was never said which he actually did. The reason I suspect he flew is because the last time he crouched down and the ground around him cracked was in season 4 when he flew. So I guess we will never know. Anyway I did enjoy the Up, Up, and Away line Chloe threw in there. So then Clark gets up there and manages to stop Zatanna from bringing her father back from the dead and killing Chloe in the process. Dammit!

Then we get to see Zatanna talking to Oliver at the end. She tells him she is going around the world to learn more about the book and her skills. She gives him a card and says you can use this to call me if you need me. And Oliver is like is this a magic word or something and Zatanna says no it’s my phone number. HAHAHAHA and we all have a good laugh!

All in all I really enjoyed this episode. I love when they bring in characters from the comic books especially well known ones who can add a lot to the show such as Zatanna and Black Canary. It’s just a shame we don’t see them too often besides Oliver. As for Serinda Swan, I thought she did a great job. I do believe this is one of her first if not the first acting role she has had and I thought she was wonderful and would absolutely love to see her more Smallville episodes or even her own spin off series. Anyway Stay tuned for my review of “Eternal” and let me know what you thought of “Hex”