The characterization of the parents is pretty good. I would like this show a lot more if it was based around the Yorkes, cheese, and lying/avoiding the Wilders. This might be because I think they've done a poor job in representing the kids.
I went ahead and read the episode synopsis for upcoming episodes after getting frustrated with the pacing
The only thing I can think about this is that Alex hacked Tina ahead of time. Wizard seems pretty high-tech and should be security savvy so I think this might be an asspull along the lines of Alex, grieving Amy's suicide, hacks Wizard for some reason.