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Roswell, New Mexico has lost one of the people in charge. Carina Adly MacKenzie, one of the showrunners of the sci-fi drama series, has left ahead of its third season, which should start filming later this year.

Per Deadline, MacKenzie announced her departure from The CW series on her Instagram account. In part, she said the following:

“I have made the difficult decision to resign from my role on Roswell, New Mexico. I do not take this decision lightly, but ultimately due to fundamental differences, I must depart and entrust Roswell, New Mexico to capable hands. I am so proud of what we built over the last two years, and I believe in the heart and soul of the show: asking tough questions, striving to make the world better, amplifying marginalized voices, and fighting the good fight.”

I’m gonna let him fly. pic.twitter.com/lA2ghvzuwP

— carina adly mackenzie (@cadlymack) July 10, 2020

In recent weeks, MacKenzie has been upset by how the series was handled overseas with a scene being cut from broadcast on ITV.

Really, really, REALLY upset to hear that @itv cut out a (pretty tame) love scene between two men and kept a (much more raunchy) heterosexual sex scene in their airing of an episode of #RoswellNM tonight. There are a lot of angry tears happening at my house tonight.

— carina adly mackenzie (@cadlymack) June 24, 2020

Also every single beat of that montage was painstakingly matched to the song lyrics and I was incredibly proud of it so I’m mad on that level too. I’m so sorry y’all. pic.twitter.com/n5cBAbIn7M

— carina adly mackenzie (@cadlymack) June 24, 2020

Roswell, New Mexico will return to The CW in 2021 with its third season.

What do you think? Are you surprised by the departure from the sci-fi series? Have you been enjoying Roswell, New Mexico on The CW?