Only Murders in the Building EP John Hoffman reveals why Oscar did not appear in season 2. Aaron Dominguez's Oscar Torres made his debut in Only Murders in the Building season 1, which saw him freshly out of prison after being wrongfully convicted of murdering his girlfriend Zoe (Olivia Reis). Oscar is pulled into the mystery of the murder of his old friend Tim Kono (Julian Cihi) and during the investigation, he fosters a relationship with Mabel (Selena Gomez). Only Murders in the Building season 1 did not give Mabel and Oscar's relationship a proper ending ad he was noticably missing in season 2, with no explanation offered for his absence.

Now, in an interview with TVLine, Hoffman reveals that Oscar did not return in season 2 because the showrunners were uninterested in pursuing his relationship with Mabel. He said that Oscar has endured a lot already, so it made sense to leave him on his own and not embroil him in Bunny's (Jayne Houdyshell) murder. Read what Hoffman said below.

“I love Aaron. [But] we made a call that we didn’t want to see Mabel develop a relationship where the trauma bond is strong. With all that Oscar had gone through we thought his leaving made sense.”

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Charles, Oliver and Mabel hug in Only Murders In The Building.

While some viewers may have been disappointed by Oscar's absence in season 2, the good news is the door for his return remains open. Season 2 essentially left Mabel without a love interest as her short-lived romance with Cara Delevingne's dishonest artist Alice Banks fell through after the latter exploited Mabel's trauma non-consensually to create her own art. While Alice and Mabel eventually patched things up, Hoffman has shot down the potential for love to be re-ignited there, so it's very much possible that Mabel could circle back to her old flame in Only Murders in the Building season 3. There are a lot of opportunities for Oscar to reappear, but ultimately how his character is reincorporated into the show will come down to the requirements of the story, meaning that it cannot be said for sure if he is returning until the scripts of Only Murders in the Building season 3 are finalized.

Source: TVLine