Sasquatch (TV series)
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| 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 Hughes Lukas Cox |
| Cinematography | Ronan Killeen |
| Animator | Drew Christie |
| Running time | 46 minutes |
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| Original release | |
| Network | Hulu |
| Release | April 20, 2021 |
Sasquatch is an American true crime documentary television series that premiered on Hulu on April 20, 2021,[1] with a South 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 a cannabis farm in Mendocino County, part of the Emerald Triangle in Northern California. Holthouse heard someone say that Bigfoot 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 the Hells Angels biker gang and Spy Rock Road, a lawless marijuana growing area of Mendocino County near Laytonville. These interviews reveal the larger problem of missing persons in the Emerald Triangle.[3]
- David Holthouse – Self – Investigative Journalist
- Ghostdance – Self – Cannabis Farmer
- Christopher Dienstag – Self – Former Cannabis Farmer
- Razor – Self – Cannabis Farmer
- Molly Sinoway – Self – Back to the Lander
- Bob Gimlin – Self – Legendary Sasquatch Hunter
- Charles Carlson – Self – Back to the Lander
- Larry Livermore – Self – Back to the Lander
- Diana – Self – Niece of Hugo Olea-Lopez
- Wayne and Georges – Themselves – Wayne Stapleton, Georges Hemingway – Life Partners/Sasquatch Hunters
- Bob Heironimus – Self – Self-Proclaimed Sasquatch Hoaxer
- Brian Regal – Self – Author of Searching for Sasquatch
- Luis Espinoza – Self – Lead Investigator, Hugo Olea-Lopez Case
- Dale Ferranto – Self – CAMP Commander
- Tom Allman – Self – Mendocino County Sheriff
- James Fay – Self – Sasquatch Hunter
- Jerry Hein – Self – Sasquatch Hunter
- Mike Sinoway – Self – Attorney
- Mark Saiz – Self – CAMP Officer
- Jim Murphy – Self – Retired Police Officer
- Jeffrey Meldrum – Self – Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology
Episodes
| No. | Title | Original release date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | "Grabbing at Smoke" | April 20, 2021 |
| 2 | "Spy Rock" | April 20, 2021 |
| 3 | "Monsters Among Us" | April 20, 2021 |
Reception
Sasquatch has received mostly positive reviews with critics praising the pacing, animated recreations, and true sense of danger.[4] Richard Roeper of the Chicago 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 of Jacobin, who wrote that it consisted of "entirely unserious, exploitative hijinks" which contrasted with the serious subject matter.[6]