At least the rest of the country could unwind with the“Dancing Itos” each night after Larry King, and Ryan Murphy’s series gives us the hilarious side-eye battles between Johnnie Cochran and Marcia Clark. About halfway through the trial, Judge Ito realized that his jurors were all going, at the very least, stir crazy, and started arranging field trips for them: to a theater performance, to see Jay Leno do stand-up, for a ride on a hot-air balloon, to a basketball game (where they were recognized and had to leave), and to Catalina Island (where everyone got seasick).

So why would anyone want to remain a juror in those conditions? After months of complaining and infighting, when juror after juror gets dismissed, they each fight to stay on. For most, this would be the closest they’d come to fame, both proximity to fame and as known figures themselves. When Judge Ito gathered all of the potential jurors at the beginning of the trial, he told them, “This is perhaps the most important decision you will make in your own personal life.” It’s hard to tell if his words were hyperbole or understatement—the guy who’s supposed to be keeping a level head mistakes celebrity for both personal fulfillment and fulfillment of a civic duty.

The one juror who wanted to leave and asked multiple times to be dismissed was Tracy Hampton; this is the juror we see completely lose it on-screen. She ultimately was dismissed four months into the trial, only to return to a home completely besieged by media. The day after her release, she was rushed to the hospital suffering an anxiety attack. She ended up posing for Playboy.

As for the other highlights of the episode? Most of the incredible stuff the jury underwent is completely true, but there were more than a few moments in tonight’s episode embellished for dramatic effect.

Gil Garcetti’s freakout at Marcia Clark and Chris Darden over the glove demonstration.

False. We see Garcetti on-screen having one of the episode’s major breakdowns, calling their performance in court “the most colossal disaster” he’s ever seen, and screaming at his prosecutors, after they protest that the evidence still overwhelmingly supports Simpson’s guilt, “No one understands goddamn DNA, Marcia, but everyone can tell when a goddamn glove doesn’t fit on a goddamn hand.” This didn’t happen. Though Clark and Darden offer slightly differing accounts, with Darden writing that he felt shut out by his fellow attorneys, Clark wrote in Without a Doubt, “His [Darden’s] office was crowded with people . . . all offering sympathy and suggestions for how we could pull ourselves out of this nosedive. “

But perhaps this is meant to be as a setup for character development that may have needed to occur for Garcetti to go from D.A. to super-chill photographer—a 2014 exhibition was called “Paris: Women & Bicycles”—and “L.A.’s First Dad,” as he has in real life (Garcetti’s son, Eric, is currently Los Angeles’s mayor).

O.J.’s poker games with his “material witnesses.”

While it has been reported that Simpson currently enjoys poker games from prison (along with episodes of Keeping Up with the Kardashians), and while he received friends and family as “material witnesses” during his trial for murder, it’s unknowable how they passed their time each visit. It is true that as the trial went on, Kardashian noticed that Simpson’s friends on the material witness list who could “see O.J.” anytime, visited less and less frequently, perhaps coinciding with the growing perception of his guilt. But the scene is undoubtedly a clever move on the writers’ part, drawing attention not only to O.J.’s eagerness to gamble, but his skill at bluffing.