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The best true crime TV and movies of 2021 on Netflix and Hulu FacebookTwitterEmail A crime scene photo from the art robbery at Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, as seen in the Netflix documentary "This Is a Robbery."Netflix/Courtesy They say crime doesn't pay, but for TV and film producers, it most certainly does. True crime has become one of the most popular genres in entertainment in the past few years, with hundreds of docuseries and films that recount grisly historical murders or mysterious disappearances. In 2019, SFGATE wrote a roundup of our old favorites, but with the boom in ...

Hulu Under the guise of searching for firsthand accounts of Sasquatch sightings in the wilds of Northern California, filmmaker Joshua Rofe follows journalist David Holthouse as he explores the lore of a Sasquatch that killed three farmworkers, which he recalls from his days working on a pot farm. He interviews fellow farmworkers and town residents, most of whom are reluctant if not unwilling to share any details of the world of cannabis farms in the Emerald Triangle, nor the people who ran the business back then. What starts as a search for a mythical monster soon transforms into a narrat...

Was Bigfoot behind the grisly murders in California’s weed country? Hulu’s ‘Sasquatch’ series investigates May. 11, 2021Hollywood David Holthouse unravels the legend of Bigfoot in Hulu’s “Sasquatch.” Photo credit: Hulu. In the three-part Hulu docuseries “Sasquatch,” investigative journalist David Holthouse unravels the legend of Bigfoot and looks at the explosion of the cannabis business in California’s “Emerald Triangle” (in the northwest counties of Humboldt, Mendocino and Trinity).  Support KCRW — your daily lifeline. KCRW stands by ou...

SASQUATCH. I imagined a collective groan when trailers for Hulu's Sasquatch rolled across screens on the North Coast. Another exploitative, sensationalist "documentary" on the Emerald Triangle to make a buck off a bunch of curious outsiders, great. That wouldn't be unfair, given the impact of Murder Mountain. We're a proud and insular bunch, not necessarily unfriendly to outsiders but certainly to the misconceptions that breed outside of the redwood curtain. I didn't watch Murder Mountain and, unlike this column's regular writer, I have largely steered clear of the true crime/documentary b...

(Welcome to  The Quarantine Stream, a new series where the /Film team shares what they’ve been watching while social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic.) The Series: Where You Can Stream It: Hulu The Pitch: While working on a weed farm in Northern California in the early 1990s, David Holthouse witnessed a fellow employee tell an unbelievable story: according to the guy, multiple people on the farm where they worked had been ripped limb from limb, and Bigfoot was to blame. Decades later, Holthouse (now an investigative journalist) sets out to get to the bottom of that story and find o...