Friday the 13th: The Series Ep. 59 Hate on Your Dial Review

Hate on Your Dial originally aired on November 6, 1989. I thought this was one of the most disturbing and most profound episodes the series has done so far. This episode had a high focus on hate crimes specifically dealing with racism. There are two brothers: one's a white power racist, the other is completely accepting of others and is mentally challenged. The older brother, the racist, is super pissed that his younger brother is friends with people of other races, specifically African Americans. The older brother kills a very young African American boy. The cursed antique in this episode is a 1954 Chevy car radio. After touching the blood of the dead boy, by turning the dial on the car radio, the older brother is able to travel back in time to 1954. The older brother had an obsession with his racist father who was lynched after being a part of a KKK meeting where they unjustly killed and tortured an African American man. The older brother is able to befriend his dad and becomes a part of the KKK clan. He partakes in the hate crime that his dad gets lynched for. He attempts to warn his father that there is a witness that will cause all of them to be killed. The time comes back to when he returns to the present. He kills his younger brother and returns back to 1954. Johnny and Jack save the day by providing a picture to a prominent African American lawyer. We learn that the witness is actually the boy's mother. His father had been physically abusive to him throughout his early childhood. The mother did what she could to stop it and hope that the hate didn't continue on. The KKK, which includes the town sheriff, decide to burn the older brother deeming him a traitor. His screams for the love of his father as he burns to death are excruciating. His father just stares on with no remorse for the loss of human life. What was so incredibly profound to me was that attempting to receive love by spreading hate destroyed this man's life. Even at the end of his life he was begging for the love of his father, which he never received. It was an incredibly awkward and painful episode to sit through, but immensely thought provoking.