‘Sasquatch’ Is A Compelling Dive Into The Emerald Triangle [Review]

Despite its playfully elusive subject, and a title that is somewhat of a misnomer, Joshua Rofe’s newest docuseries, Hulu’s “Sasquatch,” produced by the Duplass Brothers, uses the titular monster mainly as an inroad to explore the monstrosity of race relations in California’s so-called Emerald Triangle. Misleading, and somewhat scattered in how it brings a number of disparate narrative threads together, Rofe’s series is nevertheless an unsettling and compelling dive into both the sub-culture of “Squatch Hunters,” as well as the intersection of illegal pot growers and the migrant labor that they employ. If those two subjects sound radically unrelated, that is somewhat the point, as Rofe teases out the relationship between socially defined monstrosity and those who reject conventional lifestyles. As it becomes increasingly obvious across the three episodes – each running under an hour – “Sasquatch” is much more about the reasons we create fictional monsters to explain away our own horrible acts than those who try to hunt the fictional creation.

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