Colorado TV Pilot Offline Is a Must-See at SeriesFest

Gabriel Dohrn and Andy Juett’s Offline, which premieres at TV festival SeriesFest this week, opens with a desolate landscape in the Rockies and snow falling over dark mountains. Two grizzled cowboys on horses clomp into view…and then you realize it’s two of the goofy cops from the cult-classic comedy Super Troopers.

Casting several members of the famously funny Broken Lizard crew as post-apocalyptic survivors is just one of the twists from the genre-bending new pilot, which was shot in Colorado around the former mining outpost Gold Hill and in Denver. Part science fiction adventure, part black comedy, part Western, it follows the adventures of heroine Jocelyn (Mathilde Ollivier), who has survived the recent mysterious collapse of the Internet (and society) and is on the run from the…