PASADENA, Calif. – The 2020 winter TV critics press tour ends this weekend without any parties (more on that in a moment) and that means it's time to rate the parties and networks' assorted press tour performances in hopes of encouraging improvement for the summer 2020 TCA, and to offer a little behind-the-scenes glimpse. (Of course, these are just one guy's opinions and agreement will vary wildly depending on the critic. Also, I skipped a few parties to write.)

While going to parties for work sounds fun, these are working parties where TV critics are often rushing from one celeb to another to get short interviews.

Overall it seemed like there were fewer parties this year. Hallmark, which always hosts a big bash, canceled theirs, likely because they didn't want critics asking questions about their self-inflicted wounds from December when they caved to a homophobic group.

Read more after the jump. ...