The Last of Us showrunners expect fan "furor" for Season 2

"I'm never gonna say there are things that are gonna happen in the show that happened in the game. You never know what we're gonna do," Mazin said. "But I will say that it is the adventure, the journey is the point. There are things that will shock people, things that were in the game, things that were not in the game, and that's okay. As long as they're purposeful, they're not there to just simply shock. We are not interested in creating social media fear. We just want to tell the story the way we think it should be told."

He adds, "Will there be furor? Yeah, probably. I mean, there usually is, starting even with casting. We knew they were the exact right person to cast and they had to go through quite a few months of people being awful on social media until they saw what we saw. That, to me, is the point. We don't operate to either make people happy on social media or avoid making them upset. We just do what we think is right, and we hope that people come along for the ride and enjoy it."

We currently don't when The Last of Us Season 2 will air but it's expected to premiere around 2025. However, the current writers' and actors' strikes may cause further delays in the production of the series. Reports indicate that studios plan to wait it out for a while and may return to the negotiating table by October.