Smallville: Roulette
I thought this episode was a lot of fun, but I don't really have a lot to say about it. I love seeing Oliver tortured, so I enjoyed that whole aspect of the episode--especially the emotional torture. (What can I say, he looks hot when his eyes get that wounded expression). I was happy to see that when push came to shove, he couldn't murder Victoria in cold blood (thank goodness, for Lois' sake), and I did have the sense it was all a setup, though honestly I was suspecting that either Tess or the Justice League was behind it, not Chloe. And much as I love downwardly-spiralling Ollie, that plotline was beginning to go pretty stale, so it's good that he's took up his heroic mantle again.
Chloe as the Machiavellian manipulator was also fun, I thought. It actually fits her preferred style of working with heroes (huzzlewhat, I think I could get onboard the Chlamanda train), and hey, it was effective. I would have found it a tad more plausible and interesting if the behind-the-scenes manipulator had turned out to be Tess, but if they're going to make Chloe & Oliver the morally ambiguous heroes to contrast with Lois and Clark as the upright moral heroes this season, that's fine with me.
The Lois and Clark stuff was also fun; I especially loved her pointing out how much he was "eating" (hee!) and how quickly he picked up there was something deeper going on than just laundry. I didn't like their fight over Oliver nearly so much--I could really see both of their perspectives there, and I guess it is an organic obstacle to put in their path, but it depended on Lois finding out about Ollie's suicide attempt, and that *did* seem artificial to me.
Favorite line of the night, for a change, is one of Clark's: "Shouldn't you be riding a mechanical bull somewhere? It is Friday night."