True Detective casting news: Matthew McConaughy Won’t On True Detective Season 2

True Detective casting news. Matthew McConaughy isn't doing True Detective Season 2. confirmed that won't be coming back to True Detective when HBO renews it for a season 2.  At least one of the mysteries has been solved. 

Matthew McConaughey who won an Oscar that day for his role in "Dallas Buyers Club," is not returning for True Detective season 2.

HBO always said True Detective was gong to be  a stand-alone series. The series has been described as an "anthology" with a changing plot line and cast for every season. McConaughey is also an executive producer on eight episode series.

"True Detective" was created by Nic Pizzolatto. The series debuted in January in U.S. for eight episodes. It was an instant hit with 2.3 million viewers in the premiere ratings.

Last week, Nic Pizzolatto, the former academic who created and wrote True Detective hinted that "It would be great if we could use some of the same actors, like a reparatory company. It would be different characters, different setting. That's part of the fun of the anthology."

McConaughey said "No, I won't be back for season two. Season one was finite."

At the Oscars McConaughey admitted "Has anyone seen it? I made the thing ... and I'm not sure what happens."

McConaughtey said "It's a different time in television. It's not there's not that feeling of if you're having a successful film career and somebody brings up something on television we didn't know, at the time when I got it, where it was going to be. All I knew is I read the first two episodes, and I was in. And I was just, at the time, looking for quality."