In its third season, Friday Night Lights started to say goodbye.

That meant saying farewell to some of the characters and actors who defined the show’s earlier seasons.

In its third season,Friday Night Lightsstarted to say goodbye.

Long-running characters graduated from high school, leaving Dillon behind.

(That direction, specifically: East.)

One of the high points of the third season of the whole show, of all television!

“I couldn’t keep it together,” Porter says.

“I couldn’t not cry, and Taylor couldn’t not cry.”

“It was odd not shooting my last scene in Texas,” he notes.

“It wasn’t where I normally had worked.

I wasn’t around a bunch of people I normally worked with.”

The change of setting added to the sense of finality.

“It’s a special moment that I’ll never forget.

Being in New York, it really felt like closure,” says Porter.