‘The Last of Us’ Season 2: Building a Bigger, Badder Bloater for the Surprise Attack on Jackson

‘The Last of Us’ Season 2: Building a Bigger, Badder Bloater for the Surprise Attack on Jackson

So much for Jackson, Wyoming being a safe haven in “The Last of Us” Season 2. In Episode 2’s surprise attack, hordes of infected emerge from stasis under the snow after being buried by an avalanche, and are soon joined by a new Bloater, the king of the Cordyceps-infected victims. Only this one is bigger and badder than the first one from Episode 5’s nighttime attack in Kansas City. “So, the showrunners [Craig Mazin and Neil Druckmann] wanted to …