Was Hatchet Man the greatest television series ever? Each week at the end of this notorious TV show, quaint and sentimental characters were abruptly massacred by a hatchet-wielding masked man. It was always brutal, senseless, despicable … and it became a massive hit. What exactly was going on? And who could have made such a sensational abomination?

The podcast series HATCHET MAN tells the tale of a little-known but extraordinary Albanian TV series that aired in 1996 and ushered in social chaos and civil war.