The Last of Us season 2 will feature more infected, promise creators Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann. HBO’s latest Sunday night prestige triumph came billed as a TV adaptation of a video game about survival in the zombie apocalypse, seemingly promising an upscale Walking Dead. But though The Last of Us did deliver plenty of zombie-related mayhem during the course of its acclaimed season 1, criticisms were leveled against it from some quarters based on a perceived lack of action, as the show chose to focus largely on character.

As fans now settle in for the long wait until The Last of Us season 2, creators Mazin and Druckmann have addressed concerns about the lack of action involving the infected during season 1, teasing that this will be rectified in season 2. Speaking recently at a press event attended by Screen Rant, Mazin discussed the reasoning behind season 1’s action-to-character mix, while hinting at “a lot more infected” in season 2.

“We did, at times, have choices to make about how we wanted to present the infected. I will say that even though we were greenlit for a season of television, Neil and I felt like we can’t just make a season of television without considering what would come after. There is more The Last of Us to come, and I think the balance is not always just about within an episode, or even episode to episode, but season to season. It’s quite possible that there will be a lot more infected later, and perhaps different kinds.

But within the episodes that we were concentrating on, I think ultimately we generally stressed the power of relationships and trying to find significance within moments of action, so there may be less action than some people wanted, because we couldn’t necessarily find significance for quite a bit of it, or a 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 bit more focused and purposeful when we’re putting them on TV.”