Sasquatch Tries, and Fails, to Make Bigfoot a Metaphor for American Violence
Hulu’s docuseries Sasquatch uses Bigfoot as a hook to zero in on an unsolved 1993 triple homicide in the weed empire of Northern California. The series has some compelling material to work with — which it proceeds to squander.
Journalist and documentary filmmaker David Holtman tracking down leads in Sasquatch. (Hulu)
You’d think the new Hulu docuseries Sasquatch was going to be about Bigfoot, the massive legendary creature supposedly inhabiting the forests of North America. The title hints at it. And by God, when I watch a show called Sasquatch, I want it to be in some substantial way about Sasquatch.
But it isn’t, really.
Sasquatch is actually about self-described “gonzo journalist” David Holthouse looking into three gory killings supposedly done in 1993 by a rampaging Bigfoot in the “Emerald Triangle” of Humboldt, Trinity, and Mendocino counties in Northern California, where generations of ex-hippie cannabis growers have built a lucrative empire. Only it turns out the murders were done by humans, “who are the real monsters.”
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