Review: Bigfoot “Last of His Kind Part II”

OVERVIEW
Bigfoot returns to Scotland to finally reunite with Nessy, which naturally does not go as well as he planned considering he hadn’t been back in forty years. After attempting to make each other jealous with their respective fake significant others, the two finally decide to start again…only for Pretty Pretty to jump in at the last minute, killing both of Bigfoot’s former loves in one fell swoop. He returns to Swell freshly single, deciding that love simply isn’t for him, and even tries to start getting his fame going again!…with a cartoon based on his life story.

OUR TAKE

And that’s Bigfoot, I guess. For its first season finale, the show took the ol’ sasquatch farther than he’s ever been before, exploring both his own emotional depths to match the physical lengths he would go to find himself. This story began last week regarding Bigfoot trying to get a mate so that his species, which makes up only him at the moment, wouldn’t die out. Aaaaaaaannnnnddddd it ends with two of Bigfoot’s loves killing themselves in front of him when things looked to finally be ending on a positive note. Almost like the show didn’t know how to establish a new status quo or put in any meaningful character development and just wanted to get things back to normal in any way possible, even if it was rushed and random.

Gotta say, not really a fan of this. I mean, I guess I wouldn’t exactly be thrilled with them moving the series to Scotland with a brand new cast when I had already gotten used to the characters in swell, nor would I think it much of a good idea to bring Nessy back there since there’s not a ton they could do with her being giant and water based. But I feel like there had to be some sort of middle ground there for Bigfoot to learn something important and positive instead of GORILLA BETRAYAL OUT OF NOWHERE. Heck, now we can’t even have Pretty Pretty as a recurring character since she’s dead, and even if she came back somehow, she wouldn’t be nearly as interesting. We got so close to establishing more of a world to the show to revisit and explore, but then had it all brushed away so suddenly. It’s difficult not to feel a bit of whiplash from that.

So, what does this ending mean for Bigfoot as a show? Well, we look to be right back to said status quo, meaning things are reset to how they usually are, but does that we’ll be getting more of the show in the future? And do I even want more? I have not been exactly subtle how lukewarm and unremarkable I feel it has been these past twelve episodes, which hasn’t really changed by the end, but I still maintain that there is enough of a unique charm to it that I would probably watch a second season and determine if I desired more from there. Things are fleshed out just enough that I think they could squeeze at least some more material out of them. But I think it could go a long way to let things grow rather than retreat back into the woods.