Gino and Fred Emission Impossible Review: An Awesome Adventure

The firm Italian and French friends, Gino D’Acampo and Fred Sirieix are back on their travels. In an attempt to be greener, they’re off on a geographical, culinary, cultural and eco-friendly tour of Austria and Croatia. Let’s dive into this Gino and Fred Emission Impossible review.

They start their journey in the Zillertal Alps in Western Austria, surrounded by beautiful but tragically melting glaciers. Despite Austrian beef being some of the most sustainable in the world, one of the biggest factors of climate change is the production of meat.

In the shadow of the melting glacier they give vegetarian goulash a go and Gino declares himself a convert, vowing to start ‘meat free Mondays’ across his restaurants.

After rowing through the Hinterlux glacier (over four kilometres wide and almost three times the size of Monaco) they try their hand at serving beer and dancing the Schuplatter, a traditional folk dance, at The Tiroler Abende in Innsbruk.

Moving on to the Capital Vienna, their quest to find alternative food, goes via a 3D printer and ends with some innovative culinary options at a snail farm.  

I’m quite confused with the whole Gordon, Gino and Fred situation as the last thing that I read was Gino wanted to step away from it all after a contract dispute but maintained that their friendship was always more important than contract negotiations and now fast forward to this show and Gino and Fred are doing their own thing.

Gino and Fred were always the comedy duo of the show with Gordon acting as the stern but straight ‘father figure’ keeping them all in check but he’s a busy man and Emission Impossible was born and it’s a good watch!

We see Gino and Fred explore Austria in the first episode as they go to the Alps and explore melting glaciers, vegan food, agrotourism and more on their verge of green discovery.

What I liked the most about Emission Impossible was at no point was it preachy. It wasn’t trying to ram these lifestyle choices down our throat it was simply two guys who aren’t always the most eco-friendly embracing a different way of life, trying vegan goulash, taking eco-friendly transport and exploring a whole other side of eco-living.

The picturesque setting of Austria looks lovely and a nice 4k crisp image oozes this incredible visual quality to it, it has been shot beautifully and the comedy duo are in fine form with many of the opening show venues being atop giant mountains where a cable car is needed to access the summit.

Gino is scared of heights. Chaos ensues.

Emission Impossible is a food show with a twist with not so much as a plate of food being shown until 15 minutes into the show. This is a travel show with undertones of food incorporated much like Gordon, Gino and Fred were but the best part of the show is friendship.

A great partnership, a wonderful friendship and an engaging and fun show to watch as the pair explore Austrian (and Croatia in the next episode).

Fred’s poor face during the stein-carrying segment of the show was nothing short of hilarious and the stage performance thereafter was even greater. These two shine on the screen and I’m so glad we have some good comedy back on ITV screens once again as we’re swimming in copy-and-paste soap storylines, depressing news stories and crime dramas aplenty.

Nothing quite beats a comedy and this is the time of year to relax, spend with family and relax and that’s what Emissions Impossible does so well, they’re not ramming Greta Thunberg rhetoric down our throats, we’re exploring as Gino and Fred are exploring and it’s posing the question, stroking the curiosity and I thank them for creating the show like that! 

Never has Gino been so interested in a subject before when they went beaver hunting (behave) and I hope that this particular show sets up many a spin-off series in the future.

I look forward to Gino and Fred’s Emission Impossible episode 2 tomorrow! 

To catch up on episode one you can check out ITVX