| Sasquatch | |
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| Genre | True crime |
| Directed by | Joshua Rofé |
| Music by | H. Scott Salinas |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language | English |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
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| Producer | M. Elizabeth HughesLukas Cox |
| Cinematography | Ronan Killeen |
| Animator | Drew Christie |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Hulu |
| Release | April 20, 2021 (2021-04-20) |
Sasquatch is an Americantrue crimedocumentary television series that premiered onHulu on April 20, 2021,[1] with aSouth by Southwest pre-release screen on March 16, 2021. The show begins with investigative journalist David Holthouse's recalling a story he heard in 1993 on acannabis farm inMendocino County, part of theEmerald Triangle in Northern California. Holthouse heard someone say thatBigfoot has killed three people on a nearby cannabis farm.[2] Throughout the show Holthouse talks with marijuana growers and law enforcement in Mendocino County, who tell him about possible connections to theHells Angels biker gang andSpy Rock Road, a lawless marijuana growing area of Mendocino County nearLaytonville. These interviews reveal the larger problem of missing persons in theEmerald Triangle.[3]
| No. | Title | Original release date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Grabbing at Smoke" | April 20, 2021 (2021-04-20) |
| 2 | "Spy Rock" | April 20, 2021 (2021-04-20) |
| 3 | "Monsters Among Us" | April 20, 2021 (2021-04-20) |
Sasquatch has received mostly positive reviews with critics praising the pacing, animated recreations, and true sense of danger.[4] Richard Roeper of theChicago Sun-Times wrote, "director Joshua Rofe makes great use of sparse, graphic-novel type re-enactment animation to augment the usual assortment of interviews and archival footage."[5] One of the few negative reviews came from Eileen Jones ofJacobin, who wrote that it consisted of "entirely unserious, exploitative hijinks" which contrasted with the serious subject matter.[6]