Sasquatch - Season 1

Underlying the thrilling true-crime story is confrontation with a myth that reflects the monstrous potential within us all.

Director Joshua Rofé allows his story to evolve naturally, leading to a stunner of a denouement.

A modern true-crime doc of a rare breed: rarely have they felt as nerve-racking, dangerous, and truly scary.

Intrepid both in its pursuit of truth and its readiness to interrogate why that truth is interesting to us, Sasquatch is an impressive, propulsive piece of work.

Sasquatch ends on a note of eerie ambiguity, before putting a button on the tale that doesn't exactly recontextualize it, but does clear up a few lingering questions.

A clever mix of true crime and cryptozoology that will draw you in from its opening moments. Proof that the genre still has room for creativity.

Suffice to say, even with the spookiness of the California wilderness at their disposal, the team behind Sasquatch never cobble together a tale worthy of their title.

Considering the series is only three episodes, it does labour the same sequences and messages - it's almost like they did not have enough content.

Director and showrunner Joshua Rofé tries to keep it real and intersperses the weird with the plausible... Just like the evasive Sasquatch, there is a lot more than meets the eye with this documentary.

The pilot episode sucks you in immediately.

Sasquatch feels like a bold new statement for the genre, an offbeat blend of investigative reporting and documentary filmmaking with a deep dive into the supernatural and the unexplainable.

An investigation that dives headfirst into conspiracy and rumour, fuelled by the nervous anticipation of actually getting to see a monster in the flesh.