Breaking Bad but due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike only seven episodes were filmed. It ran from January 20 to March 9, 2008. A struggling high school chemistry teacher, Walter White (Bryan Cranston), is diagnosed with inoperable, advanced lung cancer. On a ride-along with his DEA agent brother-in-law Hank Schrader (Dean Norris), Walter sees a former student of his, Jesse Pinkman (Aaron Paul), fleeing the scene of a meth lab. He later contacts Jesse and devises a scheme to become partners in an attempt to combine their skills to manufacture and distribute methamphetamine, with Walter cooking the product and
Aaron Paul did voiceover narration in a Mazda commercial. In 2016, Paul began playing Eddie Lane, a man who in a crisis of faith joins a cult, in the Hulu series "The Path". "The Path" debuted on March 30, 2016. Paul voiced the main protagonist, Nyx Ulric, in "" released in July 2016. In June 2018, Paul joined the cast of the upcoming Apple crime-thriller drama series "Are You Sleeping" opposite Octavia Spencer and Lizzy Caplan. In September 2018, Paul joined the cast HBO science-fiction series "Westworld" for the third season of the series. Aaron Paul became engaged to Lauren Parsekian in