Leave it up to hardcore fans to nitpick on the smallest details of an otherwise near-perfect adaptation like HBO's The Last of Us. Many are expressing their "disappointment" that the show doesn't feature as many infected as expected. Runners, clickers, as well as bloaters, in particular, were notably missing for a majority of the show, prompting one of the series showrunners, Craig Mazin, to assure fans of some exciting news.
For the more fungus-loving audiences out there, Mazin guarantees that The Last of Us Season 2 will feature a lot more of the infected, telling Variety: Ultimately, we generally stressed the power of relationships and trying to find significance within moments of action.
And so there may be less action than some people wanted because we couldn't necessarily find significance for quite a bit of it, or [there was] concern that it would be repetitive. After all, you're not playing it, you're watching it. And although a lot of people do like to watch gameplay, it needs to be a little more focused and purposeful when we're putting it on TV. You could probably count manually with no trouble how many times the infected appeared in The Last of Us Season 1.