''Sasquatch'' is an American

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series that premiered on Hulu on April 20, 2021, 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

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farm in

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, part of the

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in Northern California. Holthouse heard someone say that Bigfoot has killed three people on a nearby cannabis farm. Throughout the show Holthouse talks with marijuana growers and law enforcement in Mendocino County, who tell him about possible connections to the

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, a lawless marijuana growing area of Mendocino County near

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. These interviews reveal the larger problem of missing persons in the

Cast

* 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 *

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- 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 -

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Commander * Tom Allman - Self - Mendocino County Sheriff * James Fay - Self - Sasquatch Hunter * Jerry Hein - Self - Sasquatch Hunter * Mike Sinoway - Self - Attorney * Mark Saiz - Self -

Officer * Jim Murphy - Self - Retired Police Officer * Jeffrey Meldrum - Self - Professor of Anatomy and Anthropology

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Reception

''Sasquatch'' has received mostly positive reviews with critics praising the pacing, animated recreations, and true sense of danger. Richard Roeper of the ''

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'' 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." 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.

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* on Hulu * {{Hulu 2020s American documentary television series Hulu original programming English-language television shows True crime television series 2021 American television series debuts Cannabis in California Works about cannabis trafficking Television series about illegal drug trade Television about Bigfoot

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