When I learned that ABC had suspended production on this summer’s season of “Bachelor in Paradise” — the cheesy spinoff of the “Bachelor” franchise, which sends spurned contenders to a notably un-air-conditioned resort in Mexico and offers them another shot at love — I was shocked. My surprise was not that production-halting misconduct took place, but that it has taken this long for something this bad to occur.

As the reality genre has flourished, viewers’ appetites have increased. We like to watch. We always want more drama, more sex, more fights, more tears — and producers have been happy to provide it.

So what, exactly, went on in Mexico that was bad enough to warrant the shutdown of an entire production? The statement from Warner Bros., the studio responsible for the show, was predictably opaque. “We have become aware of allegations of misconduct on the set,” it read. “We have suspended production and we are conducting a thorough investigation of these allegations.”

The show’s superfans were more forthcoming. Steve Carbone, who blogs as Reality Steve and is basically the Walter Cronkite of the “Bachelor” universe, tweeted that from what he had been told, the show was canceled: “They’re done. Everyone’s being sent home.”